US Army finds 94 cases of Iraq, Afghan prisoner abuse

Reuters, Washington
A long-awaited Army report on Thursday found 94 cases of abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan but blamed "a few individuals" and not the military leadership -- a finding Senate Democrats called hard to believe.

The report represented the Army's official evaluation of prisoner detention and interrogation operations in the two countries that produced the physical and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib jail and at least three dozen deaths of detainees.

Lt. Gen. Paul Mikolashek, the Army's inspector general who conducted the report and appeared before the US Senate Armed Services Committee, described a series of shortcomings, including ambiguous policies and unclear responsibilities for troops.