Quotes by Janis Karpinski - Page 1

I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Brigade
Deployed
Joined
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They transfer the prison, and all of a sudden all this money cuts loose, all these people cut loose.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Cutting
People
Prison
Cuts
Loose
Sudden
Transfer
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I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Abu
Extremely
Ghraib
Ordered
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The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Interrogation
Majority
Abu
Vast
Further
Ghraib
Intel
Prisoners
Vast Majority
Whatsoever
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There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Home
War
Finished
Military
Military Police
Operations
Police
Brigade
Go Home
Mission
Soldiers
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I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Attention
Care
Pay Attention
Soldier
Take Care
Depending
Prisons
Soldiers
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In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Military
Military Intelligence
November
Abu
Center
Ghraib
Transferred
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At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Corrections
July
Officers
Program
Responsibility
Training
Contractors
Iraqi
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Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Conventions
Geneva
Military
Military Police
Safe
Secure
Fair
Objective
Prisoners
Provide
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The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Baghdad
July
Brigade
Effective
Joined
Mission
Ordered
Sent
Statement
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I thought that that mission and the mission of taking care of those soldiers were my priorities, and I stand by the same today. There wasn't a lot of support for those soldiers.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Priorities
Soldier
Support
Mission
Soldiers
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I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Running
Evaluate
Military
Mps
Operations
Assigned
Brigade
Criminal
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The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Military
Military Intelligence
Prison
Protection
Abu
Arrive
Battalion
Ghraib
Soldiers
Transferred
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Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Cost
Military
Military Intelligence
Saddam
War Intelligence Information
Save
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It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Moving
Be Happy
Degree
Direction
Facing
Temperatures
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We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit that there was even a problem - anywhere above seven rogue soldiers who got out of control on the night shift.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Reluctance
Above
Admit
Anywhere
Rogue
Shift
Soldiers
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After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Capture
Saddam
Centered
False
False Sense
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And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Access
Work World Me
Soldiers
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That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility of conducting training, which they did. We were not equipped or set up with personnel to recruit new Iraqi guards.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Abandoned
Conducting
Military
Military Police
Personnel
Police
Recruit
Tagged
Equipped
Guards
Iraqi
Quickly
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The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Combat
Fewer
Military
Military Police
Operations
Police
Population
Procedures
Reducing
Release
Immediately
Requires
Soldiers
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Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Baghdad
Conversation
Ambassador
Iraqis
Operational
Prisons
Timeline
Transfer
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If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Interrogation Techniques
Law
Responsibility
Saddam
Unusual
Above
Charged
Enhance
Practical
Purposes
Soldiers
Techniques
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If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit.
Janis Karpinski / Military Officer
Abu
Associate
Exploit
Ghraib
One Or Two
Piece
Raid
Soldiers
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