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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector-Anyone know the real reasons that Brig. General Rick Baccus was relieved of his command? He pissed 'em off royally whatever he did. According to Alex Jones who this afternoon mentioned US Marine General Baccus, who retired soon after the infamous "Camp X-Ray" at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba received so-called Taliban prisoners. First, General Baccus blew the whistle and tried to make public the fact that NONE of the "Taliban" prisoners were in fact involved in the Taliban government. They were goatherders and shoemakers. Also, according to Alex Jones (infowars.com), General Baccus resigned because he refused to be part of the torture he was ordered to perform. Alex got his story from the "wholesale" news, i.e. the wire services, and states that this news never made it to the "retail" news. This was mid-October of 2002. ................ 'Soft' Guantanamo chief ousted Julian Borger in Washington Wednesday October 16, 2002 The Guardian The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp - who was criticised in the US press for being too soft on the inmates - has been dismissed, it emerged yesterday. Brigadier-General Rick Baccus was relieved of his duties as camp commander and as an officer in the Rhode Island national guard on October 9, five days after a newspaper report quoted defence sources as saying he was "too nice" to the 598 inmates, and was consequently making it hard for the military interrogators to extract information from them. Back home in Rhode Island General Baccus told a local radio station that"in no instance did I interfere with interrogations", and expressed surprise at his treatment. "I'm a little amazed that after being deployed for seven months, separated from my wife, family and my job and being called to active duty, this is the kind of reception I'm getting." Officials at the Guantanamo Bay base, a US enclave in Cuba, said Gen Baccus had left because his unit, responsible for running Camp Delta, the base's detention centre, was merged with Joint Task Force 170, a combined unit drawn from the Defence Intelligence Agency, CIA and FBI, which questions the inmates. His commanding officer in the Rhode Island national guard, Major- General Reginald Centracchio, said he had sacked him for various reasons that "culminated in my losing trust and confidence in him". A national guard spokesman said General Baccus had failed to keep the headquarters up to date with reports on the troops' wellbeing. General Baccus denied the allegation and said General Centracchio did not have the authority to dismiss him from the national guard. He said he had no intention of retiring. In August Gen Baccus told a visiting group of journalists, including the Guardian, that uniformed officers had concerns that the Guantanamo Bay inmates continued to be labelled "enemy combatants" rather than "prisoners of war", a classification which would give them more rights under the Geneva conventions and which would assure their release at the end of hostilities. The Pentagon said there were no current plans to reclassify the Guantanamo Bay inmates. On October 4 the Washington Times reported that the chief interrogator, Major-General Michael Dunlavey, was irritated by the prisoners' treatment, particularly by Gen Baccus's decision to let the Red Cross put up posters telling inmates they need only provide their interrogators with their name, rank and number. Gen Dunlavey has taken over Gen Baccus's duties. The newspaper also reported that, when addressing the detainees, Gen Baccus began with the words "peace be with you" and finished with "may God be with you". http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,812647,00.html .......... 4 Camp X-Ray prisoners isolated for more intensive interrogation http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/2993757.htm http://www.militarycorruption.com/doubletrouble.htm http://www.eastbayri.com/News/2002/1017/Bristol/022.html http://www.gsmpro.com/article/articledt.asp?hArticleId=24 ............. Here is an article when Gen Baccus was first appointed to head Camp X- Ray: Posted on Thu, Mar. 21, 2002 New chief for X-Ray BY CAROL ROSENBERG [EMAIL PROTECTED] GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A National Guard general who was assigned to a Military Police brigade in Rhode Island a year ago has been chosen to become the new commander of this evolving offshore detention center for terror suspects. Brig. Gen. Rick Baccus, 49, officially replaces Marine Brig. Gen. Michael Lehnert next week but was visiting this U.S. Navy base Wednesday to inspect the operation, said spokesman, Marine Maj. James Bell, who characterized the change in command as routine. Lehnert, a military engineer by specialty, arrived from Camp LeJeune, N.C. in early January and returns to his rapid-reaction unit even before more permanent housing is finished for the prisoners at a site called Camp Delta. Baccus is a 28-year active duty Army officer who got his star a year ago, when he took charge of Military Police Brigade 43 in Warwick, R.I. A paratrooper with Special Forces experience, most of his later career has been largely in logistics and support. The selection of Baccus also signals the coming shift toward a more Army-oriented operation here as the more secret interrogation- oriented component of the detention center awaits the Bush administration to approve guidelines on military tribunals. Another as-yet undisclosed Army general is in charge of the interrogations, called Joint Task Force 170, and has operated so far in secret. Baccus will command JTF 160. http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/2902387.htm gj .. Please let us stay on topic and be civil. To unsubscribe please go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs -Home Page- www.cia-drugs.org OM Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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