"The emphasis on detainee operations was just not there".
Gen. Douglas M. Stone, who runs detainee operations countrywide, is proceeding with a broad experiment to restructure it.
John Fleming of the Navy, a spokesman for the multinational forces' detainee operations.
It also recommended overhauling Army policies to deal with detainee operations in counterinsurgencies.
The Ministry of Interior and the National Directorate of Security, which run Afghan detainee operations, have cooperated, NATO officials said.
Kevin Aandahl of the Navy, a spokesman for the military's detainee operations, which include the biometrics program.
A Pentagon document setting rules for medical professionals in detainee operations endorses force-feeding hunger strikers, department officials said.
"As a group, they are not religious," said Maj. Gen. Douglas Stone, the head of detainee operations for the American military.
Only detainee operations and "very small numbers of U.S. S.O.F.," or Special Operations forces, are exempted from the directive, Admiral Smith said.
In April, 2004, a month after the report was filed, he was reassigned there as the deputy commander for detainee operations.
"The intelligence evidence that we have on him remains classified," said Lt. Col. Patricia Johnson, spokeswoman for United States military detainee operations in Iraq.
