Checks of reports that Israeli interrogators were present at Abu Ghraib prison have come up empty, Donald Rumsfeld said. The U.S. secretary of defense responded Wednesday to a claim by Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who was responsible for the Iraqi prison when abuses were committed against prisoners there, that she had encountered a man claiming to be Israeli.
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