US launches probe into Afghan detainee abuse
Former Afghan police colonel Sayed Nabi Siddiqui told the New York Times he was subjected to beating, kicking, sleep deprivation, taunts and sexual abuse during 40 days in US custody in Afghanistan last year.
The report will be of considerable concern to the 20,000-strong US-led force in Afghanistan hunting al- Qaida and Taliban fighters waging an insurgency against the government. The force has not faced the same level of resistance since toppling the Taliban as US troops are seeing in Iraq.
