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U.S. Soldiers Charged With Beating Iraqi POWs

HeadlineJul 28, 2003

Meanwhile the U.S. military has charged four of its soldiers with punching, kicking and breaking the bones of Iraqi prisoners of war. The four officers, all from a Pennsylvania-based Army Reserve unit, are the first known U.S. troops to face such charges in Iraq. Last month human rights group Amnesty International issued a study that had found the U.S. was violating international law by subjecting Iraqi prisoners to “cruel, inhuman or degrading’’ conditions.

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