US soldier should use 'minimum of force necessary'

Backed by enlarged photographs of terrified prisoners at Abu Ghraib being menaced by dogs, a prosecutor in the court martial of a US Army dog handler said today that the defendant violated two tenets of his training: to treat prisoners humanely and to use the minimum amount of force necessary to ensure compliance.

US soldier should use 'minimum of force necessary'

Backed by enlarged photographs of terrified prisoners at Abu Ghraib being menaced by dogs, a prosecutor in the court martial of a US Army dog handler said today that the defendant violated two tenets of his training: to treat prisoners humanely and to use the minimum amount of force necessary to ensure compliance.

“American soldiers don’t do that,” Major Christopher Graveline told a military jury in Fort Meade, Maryland, gesturing emphatically toward the photographs during closing arguments in the trial of Sgt Michael Smith.

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