MAJOR GENERAL ANTONIO M. TAGUBA, US Army, CF

1234567891011121314151617181920212223is your-- is your-- had remarked that you’ve got all these CPAofficials there, and not one member of the Command Group or CJTF-7.So, how did-- we’re you able to discern at least where yourpriorities lie, I mean I know it’s prison. I know it’s detentionfacility and all that stuff, but who were you getting your directionsfrom?A. Before the change of command ceremony, General Hill went up toBaghdad. And he went to CPA and said, “Where are the facilitieswe’re going to be able to start with; because right now we have theHVD Facility at Cropper, and we have a Corp Holding Area.” And theysaid, they being the prisons experts, Mr. Irvine and the Chief ofStaff, Colonel Haun at the CPA, said, “Do you have any room out atBaghdad Central to hold prisoners, yet?” And the answer to thatquestion was, “No.” I wasn’t there, but the answer to that questionwould be “No.” So, he said then, “Take your-- use the time torebuild the jails, or to supervise this-- so, we at least havecapacity to hold some of the “bad guys.” So, General Hill came back,that must have been in early June because he came back, and I arrivedin Kuwait and the next day we were out on the road. We were going toBucca. We were going to Talil. We were moving up and the change ofcommand ceremony hadn’t even taken place yet. So, we got to Baghdadand we-- General Hill said that he had not met General Wojdakowski,or General Sanchez, so we would do that. And then we would go down33