Soldier: Prisoner abuse 'considered normal'

Interrogators at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison viewed sleep deprivation, stripping inmates naked and threatening them with dogs as normal ways of dealing with ”the enemy”, a soldier attached to military intelligence there said.

Interrogators at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison viewed sleep deprivation, stripping inmates naked and threatening them with dogs as normal ways of dealing with ”the enemy”, a soldier attached to military intelligence there said.

But while military police are now facing charges – and with one already convicted – it was clear that US Army military intelligence ran the prison, Sergeant Samuel Provance said.

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