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Guantanamo Bay general honored
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published August 1, 2006
WASHINGTON - An Army general who supervised the detention of insurgents in Iraq and ran the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects in Cuba was praised at a retirement ceremony Monday as an innovator and exceptional leader. Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, the Army's fourth-highest Army commendation, which is for soldiers who distinguish themselves by "exceptionally meritorious service" in a "duty of great responsibility." Miller led a team from Guantanamo to Iraq in September 2003 to advise on detention operations at Abu Ghraib. A few weeks later, abuses by U.S. soldiers occurred at Abu Ghraib involving dogs and sexual humiliation of Iraqi detainees. An Army inspector general's investigation cleared Miller of wrongdoing in his role at Abu Ghraib. Human rights groups have singled out Miller as among the senior Army commanders who should be held accountable for the abuses.
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