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Deborah Caulfield Rybak, Star Tribune
An e-mail diary by U.S. interrogator Joe Ryan, a former Green Beret and Twin Cities resident, about working at a Baghdad prison has been removed from the Web site of KSTP Radio (1500 AM: http://www.am1500.com ) at his request, a station official said Monday.
"We got an e-mail from him last Thursday saying that the military had asked that he stop letting his diary be posted," said program director Joe O’Brien.
Ryan’s request came within days of a CBS news report about abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. guards at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
Ryan had been sending regular e-mails to KSTP talk show hosts Ron Rosenbaum and Mark O’Connell for posting on the station’s Web site.
Rosenbaum emphasized that he has "no reason to believe that Joe is under investigation. But obviously that particular prison is under a microscope."
Rosenbaum said he wasn’t certain that Ryan was posted to the Abu Ghraib prison. Ryan’s posted e-mails from April 11-26 do not mention the prison by name.
On April 15, Ryan wrote that he returned from work at 4:30 a.m. after interrogating a new detainee from a town near Fallujah. "The guy is my age and has a background in smuggling stuff into Iraq from Syria. It actually did not take long to get him talking, the problem was how much information he had."
In his last posting on April 26, he said he expected to be home on leave in mid-May.