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Karpinksi: Iraq prison abuse was ordered

WASHINGTON, June 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army general suspended after prisoner abuse was revealed at a Baghdad prison says she was ordered to treat prisoners like dogs.

Brig.-Gen. Janis Karpinski told The Times of London she was being made a scapegoat for the scandal and suggested the roots of degrading treatment by guards were in a directive from Maj.-Gen. Geoffrey Miller.

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She told the BBC U.S. military intelligence took over the Abu Ghraib prison determined to operate it as they did at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.

She said Miller said: "They are like dogs, and if you allow them to believe at any point that they are more than a dog, then you've lost control of them."

One U.S. soldier has been sentenced and six others are awaiting courts martial over the abuse, which shocked the world and forced President George Bush into an apology.

Karpinski hinted the treatment of inmates at Abu Ghraib was sanctioned higher up the U.S. command and said Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the current head of ground forces in Iraq, should also be asked what he knew about the affair.

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