US: No Widespread Abuse in Iraq Prisons

World | May 2, 2004, Sunday // 00:00

There is no widespread pattern of abuse of Iraqi prisoners and that the actions of "just a handful" of US troops at a Baghdad prison have unfairly tainted all American forces, top US military officer Gen. Richard Myers said. The New Yorker magazine cited an internal Army report that found that Iraqi detainees were subjected to "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said "categorically" that "there is no evidence of systematic abuse" in the US detention operations in the region.

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