Report highlights US prisoner deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan

Thirty-nine prisoners have died in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since the autumn of 2001 and there have been 94 cases of proven or suspected abuse, the Army said in a broad new report giving a more precise and higher estimate of the scale of the abuse.

The Army inspector general’s report also gives new details about the alleged abuses, including evidence that troops conspired to make Iraqi prisoners jump off a bridge, that one interrogator hit a prisoner in the head during questioning and that a sergeant told subordinates to ”rough up” detainees.