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(HTML version<\/a>) by Charles Knight, PDA Commentary<\/em>, 18 May 2004. The numbers of prisoners for processing in Iraq were so great that government interrogators began to rely on the assistance of under-trained and youthful soldiers who were so “shockingly undisciplined” that they took photos of their activities to send home — yet another indicator of how poorly prepared for a large scale occupation the United States was before going into Iraq. Distributed by The Global Beat Syndicate and posted on the Foreign Policy In Focus<\/em> and Antiwar.com websites.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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