US Military Opens Probe Into Alleged Afghan Prisoner Abuse
The investigation will determine whether the two soldiers, a captain and a sergeant from an infantry regiment, should be court-martialled, the military said in a statement.
The investigation followed accusations from within the soldiers' unit, the statement said, without giving further details on the alleged abuse.
U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq have been implicated in a number of abuse scandals in which troops have been accused of mistreating detainees, notably in the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad.
According to human rights groups, former prisoners from the U.S. military jail in Bagram, north of Kabul, have complained of being beaten, tortured or subject to other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
Nearly 70,000 international soldiers, many of them from the U.S., are deployed in Afghanistan combating a growing Taliban-led insurgency.
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December 01, 2008 12:59 ET (17:59 GMT)
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