Senior Abu Ghraib officer says rules for dog use were lacking

The former US military intelligence chief at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison says he regrets not setting “appropriate controls” there, where detainees were bitten by dogs and assaulted and sexually humiliated by guards.

Col. Thomas Pappas, commander of military intelligence at Abu Ghraib in late 2003 and early 2004, testified yesterday at the Fort Meade, Maryland, court-martial of Sgt. Michael Smith, an Army dog handler charged with abusing detainees at the prison.