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The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu…

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There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations -…
I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were…
I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the…
At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA,…
If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above…
I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we…
They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.
The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately;…
The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined…
Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him…
That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We…

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