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Update on the US case:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3680025.stm

US troops face Iraq abuse charges

The US military has filed criminal charges against six of its soldiers who are accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners.
The charges are now being examined by the military equivalent of a grand jury, a US military spokesman told the BBC's Newshour programme.

Six senior US officers were also reprimanded, the army said earlier.

The spokesman, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, said they had not taken part in the criminal actions, but had been responsible for supervising the others.


"Letters of reprimand are for their supervisors, some quite distant from their location... but who still had the responsibility of supervising their people," he said.

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Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who was in charge of the prison as head of the 800th Military Police Brigade....(snip)...She is reportedly among the six reprimanded.

The General Office Memorandum Reprimand prohibits any further promotion and paves the way for dismissal from the army.

A seventh person has been given a "letter of admonishment", a lesser form of reprimand.

All seven are now appealing against the rulings, which were issued last month, but only made public on Monday.

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