Top U.S. Officer Can't Rule Out Pattern of Prison Abuse - DC

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Top U.S. Officer Can't Rule Out Pattern of Prison Abuse
By Jim Wolf

FROM: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040502/us_nm/iraq_prison_report_dc_10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer declined on Sunday to rule out the possibility that U.S. forces might be guilty of a pattern of abuse of prisoners in Iraq and elsewhere.

Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he had not yet read an Army report said to document "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" of Iraqi prisoners, including beatings and sodomy.

Asked how he could be sure that any such abuses were not "systemic," Myers said on the CBS program "Face the Nation," "I'm not sure of it."

A 53-page internal Army report, cited in the May 10 issue of the New Yorker Magazine, detailed reported abuses at Abu Ghraib between October and December. The prison, 25 miles west of Baghdad, was notorious for torture and executions under the ousted government of President Saddam Hussein.

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