An army summary of deaths and mistreatment involving prisoners in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan shows a wider pattern of abuse involving more military units than previously known.
The cases from Iraq date to April 15, 2003, a few days after Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled in a Baghdad square, and they extend to last month, when a prisoner detained by navy commandos died in a suspected case of homicide attributed to "blunt force trauma to the torso and positional asphyxia."
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But the civilian and military intelligence officials who had access to the reports that emerged from the unit say that they were of little use. While interrogations of prisoners in the field, shortly after their arrests, sometimes provided helpful information in averting attacks against American forces, those conducted during the long months in which the prisoners were held at the jail did little to answer the questions that were then the top priority for intelligence officers, including the whereabouts of Saddam and the nature of command, control and funding of the anti-American insurgency.
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The document, dated May 5, is a synopsis prepared by the Criminal Investigation Command at the request of army officials grappling with intense scrutiny prompted by the circulation of photographs of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. It lists the status of investigations into three dozen cases, including the continuing investigation into the notorious abuses at Abu Ghraib.
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