Sat, Jul 03, 2004 - Page 7 News List

Militants hit Baghdad, free Turks

IRAQ TENSION Militants fired rockets from their homemade launcher in Baghdad as two Turkish hostages walked free after their firm agreed to leave

AP AND AFP , WASHINGTON, WARSAW AND BAGHDAD

The munitions were found in a bunker in the Polish sector.

PRISONER ABUSE

The New York Times said yesterday that a report by a US Army general into prisoner abuse by US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan says bad training, organization and policy on military detention are to blame.

The report by Lieutenant General Paul Mikolashek, which is expected to be released in the next couple of weeks, said inadequate training for military jailers and interrogators, poor leadership, overcrowded cells and poor medical care for the prisoners also contributed to the abuse and torture.

However, the report found no systemic abuse at US-run prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan and will probably not assign any blame to senior US officers in Iraq, defense officials familiar with the report told the daily.

The report is based on a four-month review by a team of military specialists.

"It's going to be a tough report," a defense official said. "It will show that these various problems helped to create and contribute to an environment that left room for human error and possibly misconduct by soldiers."

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