Jury returns split verdict in Abu Ghraib case

A military court in Fort Meade, Maryland, today acquitted a US Army officer of failing to control US soldiers accused of abusing detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, but it found him guilty of disobeying an order.

Jury returns split verdict in Abu Ghraib case

A military court in Fort Meade, Maryland, today acquitted a US Army officer of failing to control US soldiers accused of abusing detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, but it found him guilty of disobeying an order.

Lt Col Steven Jordan was the only officer and the last of 12 defendants to go to trial in the Abu Ghraib 2003 scandal that embarrassed the Pentagon and shocked the Muslim world.

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