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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army has opened an investigation into a Fort Bragg soldier's allegations that he witnessed and heard about widespread prisoner abuse — including torture and a beating with a baseball bat — while serving at a base in Iraq.
The announcement Friday coincided with a scathing report by a human rights organization on three 82nd Airborne Division soldiers' accounts of prisoners being beaten, forced to hold five-gallon jugs of water in their outstretched arms and denied sleep, food and water.
The abuse, one of the sergeants said, was like a game and a way for soldiers to work out their frustrations. The soldiers said there was a great deal of confusion about what types of treatment were allowed under the Geneva convention, and senior officers provided little guidance.
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