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(回答先: ブッシュはラムジーを護るために戦う。反面、アーミー・タイムズ紙は「辞任すべき」。他。【BBC】 投稿者 Sちゃん 日時 2004 年 5 月 11 日 00:00:44)
The latest pictures show detainees being threatened with dogs (AP Photo/Courtesy of The New Yorker)
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3699453.stm
Bush backs 'superb' defence chief
President George W Bush has said that his embattled Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is doing a "superb job".
Speaking to reporters after a briefing at the Pentagon on the situation in Iraq, Mr Bush thanked Mr Rumsfeld for his "leadership".
Mr Bush is backing Mr Rumsfeld, despite growing calls for his resignation over the prisoner abuse scandal.
Military newspaper the Army Times has joined in with an editorial in effect calling on Mr Rumsfeld to be sacked.
The private newspaper, widely circulated at military bases, says Mr Rumsfeld and his top general, Richard Myers, should be held accountable for their failures.
"On the battlefield, Myers' and Rumsfeld's errors would be called a lack of situational awareness - a failure that amounts to professional negligence," the newspaper says.
But earlier, Vice-President Dick Cheney described Mr Rumsfeld as the best defence secretary the US has ever had.
'Damaging criticism'
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the meeting at the Pentagon had been scheduled well before the prisoner scandal erupted.
Prior to the meeting, Mr Bush was reported to have demanded he be shown all the video material and photographs showing mistreatment held by the Pentagon.
With new pictures surfacing almost every day - the latest showing soldiers with dogs surrounding a naked prisoner - efforts to draw a line under the scandal appear to have failed.
A confidential report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in US custody is not limited to isolated cases, but forms part of a systematic pattern.
A spokesman said the ICRC had been warning the US about such cases for more than a year.
But the organisation's strict policy of confidentiality meant it could not go into details publicly about the warnings.
Friday's Wall Street Journal newspaper quoted the ICRC's 24-page report that alleges, among other things, that prisoners were kept naked in cells, in darkness and without facilities.
Meanwhile, top Democrats have pinned the blame for much of the scandal on President Bush.
"There's more than a systemic failure - there's a failure of leadership that goes right to the top," former Nato commander Wesley Clark told NBC television.
Troops blamed
Mr Rumsfeld told Congress on Friday that more "sadistic" photos and video images showing US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners were yet to be seen by the public.
The New York Times reports that there is resistance within the Pentagon to releasing more images.
Officials are warning that such a move could jeopardise criminal inquiries. Seven soldiers are facing charges over alleged abuses.
The BBC's Justin Webb, in Washington, says the vice-president has told people to stop haranguing Mr Rumsfeld, but it is clear that the Pentagon chief faces a new and damaging set of criticisms from army families, who think junior troops are being left to carry all the blame.
UK minister pressured
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologised for any cases of mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers.
But on Monday he told reporters that it was only in the last few days that his government had been made aware of specific allegations of abuse - and that was when pictures of alleged abuse appeared in the press.
In a statement to MPs on Monday, the UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon apologised "unreservedly" to any Iraqis who had been mistreated.
Mr Hoon said the ICRC report, which was given to the coalition officials, had not been passed to ministers until "very recently" because its concerns had been dealt with.
He said decisions on whether to prosecute British troops over alleged abuse of Iraqis were pending in two cases.
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