The
U.S. military has found 94 cases of confirmed or alleged abuse of
prisoners by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan since the fall of
2001, the Army's inspector general said Thursday in a long-awaited
report made public at a hastily called Senate hearing. The number is
significantly higher than all other previous estimates given by the
Pentagon, which had refused until now to give a total number of abuse
allegations. The inspector general investigation, ordered Feb. 10 after
the allegations of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq came to the
attention of top Army officials in Washington, concluded that there
were no systemic problems that contributed to the abuse. In some cases,
the report found, the abuse was abetted or facilitated by officers not
following proper procedures. [more]
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