Journalist: Pentagon culture led to prison abuse
记者称：五角大楼纵容虐俘

☆ pentagon  五角大楼

New article has photo of dogs, naked Iraqi prisoner
新文章配有军犬、赤祼伊拉克战俘照片

Monday, May 10, 2004 Posted: 0225 GMT (1025 HKT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Journalist Seymour Hersh wrote a new article in The New Yorker magazine this week that includes a photograph that shows American guards apparently setting dogs on a naked prisoner at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
华盛顿(CNN)----记者Seymour Hersh在本周《新纽约人》杂志上发表一篇新文章，文章配发的图片明显显示，美国士兵驱使军犬袭击巴格达Abu Ghraib监狱中一名赤祼的战俘。

☆ set on  驱使，怂恿

It is the second consecutive week that Hersh has written in the magazine about abuses by U.S. soldiers at the prison in Iraq.
连续第二周，Hersh在杂志上发表文章，披露美军士兵在伊拉克监狱的虐俘行为。

Such revelations, along with the publication of graphic photographs from the prison, have put Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other Pentagon officials under pressure to explain how the abuse happened.
随着来自监狱的照片公布于众，新内幕不断涌现，将使国防部长Donald Rumsfeld及其他五角大楼官员面临巨大压力，迫使他们解释这些虐待行为是如何发生的。

☆ Secretary of Defense 国防部长

In his latest article, Hersh writes that Abu Ghraib's problems stemmed from a Defense Department thick with patterns of secrecy, disdain for the Geneva Conventions and indifference to the possibility that plans could be wrong.
在其最新文章中，Hersh认为，国防部门对此事的刻意隐瞒、无视“日内瓦�约”以及对那些计划可能产生错误后果的漠视，造成了如今的Abu Ghraib监狱问题。

☆ stem from 起源于
     thick with 与…密切相关
     disdain  蔑视

"It's not because it's a cover. It's because they don't listen to what they don't want to hear," Hersh told CNN.
Hersh向CNN称：“不是因为情况被隐瞒了，而是因为他们根本不听不想听到的东西。”

In an interview Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition," Hersh said he learned that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the American commander in Iraq, put U.S. prisons under the command of military intelligence in November and changed procedures that allowed military police to participate in interrogations.

Hersh said he believed the pressure was on last fall to end a steadily rising insurgency -- and that military intelligence officers being pressured from above passed it on to military police guarding detention facilities.

A recommendation from Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller -- then commander of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and now in charge of all U.S. detention centers in Iraq -- made that concept easier to put into play, Hersh writes.