its interrogators were in IraqIsrael has categorically dismissed claims by the US general who used to run the notorious Abu Ghraib prison that any of its interrogators have been in Iraq.
"There is no basis whatsoever to the reports regarding the alleged participation of Israeli investigators in the interrogation of prisoners and/or detainees in Iraq," a statement from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's bureau said on Sunday.
"These reports are emphatically denied," it added. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom also dismissed the claims by Brigadier General Janis Karpinski as "completely baseless".
"We are not involved in any way in Iraq. We are not involved in training or in interrogations, or in anything else. The whole claim is preposterous," he told army radio.

Aljazeera/AFP Jul.04.04