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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (131501)	5/5/2004 11:01:02 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It was two weeks after the event. These things take time. Here is a headline from today. What's the difference really? apnews.myway.com WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush said Wednesday in an interview with Arab TV that the treatment of Iraqi prisoners by some members of the U.S. military was "abhorrent." The people of Iraq "must understand that what took place in that prison does not represent the America that I know." Bush's appearance on Arab television was set for the day after the Army disclosed that it is conducting criminal investigations of 10 prisoner deaths in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus another 10 abuse cases. In addition, the deaths of two Iraqi prisoners already have been ruled homicides. In one case, a soldier was court-martialed, reduced in rank and discharged from the Army. In the other homicide, a CIA contract interrogator's conduct has been referred to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution