Antonio Taguba Military person

Antonio Mario Taguba (born October 31, 1950), 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.

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Birth date	October 31, 1950
Birth place	Philippines , Manila

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allegiance	United States of America
award	Distinguished Service Medal (U.S. Army) Legion of Merit
military branch	United States Army
military command	2nd Brigade 2nd Armored Division
service start	1972
service end	2007