All posts tagged "Abu Ghraib Prison"

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The soldier who orchestrated abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison was released on Saturday after serving more than six years in a Kansas military prison barracks, a U.S. Army spokeswoman said.

WASHINGTON – Former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted in an interview that the country "would've been better off" if he had quit after the 2004 Abu Ghraib scandal and spared no criticism of his colleagues in his new memoir published Tuesday.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. Army colonel has recommended the court-martial of an American soldier charged with murdering Afghan civilians for sport, collecting fingers from dead bodies and other crimes, sources familiar with the case said on Thursday.

The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in Afghanistan.