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Army Commanders to Testify Before Senate

HeadlineMay 19, 2004

The Senate Armed Forces Committee plans to hear testimony today from Gen. John Abizaid, head of U.S. Central Command; Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander on the ground in Iraq; and Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who headed up operations at Guantanamo Bay and alter Abu Ghraib. They are all scheduled to testify in person in Washington. Today’s hearing is not without controversy. Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter accused the Senators of “jerking out these battlefield commanders” while their troops are in a war. He went on to say the Senate Armed Forces Committee have given “probably more publicity to what six people did in the Abu Ghraib prison at 2:30 in the morning than the invasion of Normandy.”

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