Antonio Taguba

Who is Antonio Taguba?

Antonio Mario Taguba, is a retired major general in the United States Army. He was the second American citizen of Philippine birth to be promoted to general officer rank in the Army.

Taguba is best known for authoring the Taguba Report, an internal U.S. Army report on abuse of detainees held at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; the report was published, then leaked, in 2004. Taguba again made national headlines in June, 2008, when he accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes, in a preface to a report by Physicians for Human Rights on prisoner abuse and torture in American military prisons.