Army reserve chief condemns Iraq prison abuse

The chief of the US Army Reserve said he has ordered a study of whether reservists are sufficiently trained in ethical conduct and how to treat prisoners following the release of photographs allegedly showing Iraqi PoWs being abused by US soldiers.

Following a meeting yesterday with families of the reserve unit at the centre of the investigation, Lieutenant General James Helmly said photographs of naked inmates forced to assume humiliating positions beside grinning military police reservists “go against the grain of everything America’s Army stands for”.