But what’s really interesting, in light of all the pro-torture stuff coming out of the White House
these days, is the following recent testimony from a former Yugoslav General Geza Farkas. He was
apparently “chief of the Security Dept. of the Yugoslav Army during the Kosovo war, prior to that he
was an assistant deputy minister in the Yugoslav Defense Ministry.” Think about Abu Ghraib. Think
about the question of whether the US torture of “enemy combatants” there was a matter of Pentagon
policy or fog-of-war confusion. From the daily recounting of trial proceedings:
“…Gen. Farkas devoted a great deal of his testimony to the measures that were taken to prevent and
punish criminal conduct in the ranks of the [Yugoslav] army. He showed the court several orders, in
which soldiers were commanded to refrain from criminal conduct and to report crimes whenever they
occurred.
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