Barbara Fast
| Barbara Fast | |
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 Major General Barbara Fast |
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| Allegiance | United States of America |
| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Rank | Major General, Retired |
| Commands held | Senior intelligence officer in Iraq (2003-2004) Commanding General, USAIC Commander, 66th MI Group |
| Awards | Defense Superior Service Medal (2) Legion of Merit Bronze Star Defense Meritorious Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal (5) Army Commendation Medal |
Barbara Fast was a general officer in the United States Army and was the senior military intelligence officer serving in Iraq during the period of time when the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse occurred.
Fast retired from the Army as a Major General with over thirty of years of service.
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[edit] Education
Fast graduated from Belleville Township High School East in Belleville, Illinois in 1971 and earned a Master of Science degree in Business Administration from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. She also is a graduate of the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.[1]
[edit] Military career
Fast was the most senior military intelligence officer serving in Iraq during the period of time when the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse occurred. Critics believed she should have been held partly accountable for the abuses committed at Abu Ghraib by military intelligence personnel, but she was never officially implicated, charged, or reprimanded.[dead link][2] She was previously assigned as the commanding general of the United States Army Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, and was the last commander of the 66th Military Intelligence Group in Augsburg, Germany.
On November 14, 2006 human rights attorney Wolfgang Kaleck filed a high profile criminal complaint at the German Federal Attorney General (Generalbundesanwalt) against Donald Rumsfeld and several senior US officials including Barbara Fast for their alleged involvement in human rights violations at the Abu Ghraib prison.[3] However, legal scholars speculated shortly thereafter that the case had little chance of successfully making it through the German court system.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.defensedaily.com/events/fast_bio/
- ^ Carol Ann Alaimo (July 31, 2005). "Despite critics, Huachuca's leader focuses on future". Arizona Daily Star. Archived from the original on February 18, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060218042801/http://www.inscom.army.mil/PAO/spotlight_fast.asp. Retrieved September 4, 2007.
- ^ Adam Zagorin (November 10, 2006). "Exclusive: Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse". Time magazine. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1557842,00.html. Retrieved September 4, 2007.
- ^ Andrew Purvis (November 16, 2006). "Why Rumsfeld Can Rest Easy Over German Charges". Time magazine. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1560224,00.html. Retrieved September 4, 2007.
