US official present at Abu Ghraib prison death

June 25, 2004
"A SENIOR US military intelligence commander was present when a detainee died during questioning at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, a US soldier has told a hearing.

Captain Donald Reese, a witness at preliminary hearing at a military court in Baghdad for a soldier involved in the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, said a "Colonel Pappas" was among those present at the interrogation."

"I heard Colonel Pappas say: 'I'm not going to go down alone for this'," Reese told the hearing.
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