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  • Lawmakers Told of POW Abuse Months Ago

    05/16/2004 10:26:47 PM PDT · by Bommer · 10 replies · 236+ views
    Yahoo news ^ | 05/17/2004 | DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press Writer
    HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Two months before pictures of Iraqi prisoner abuse became public, the family of one accused soldier wrote to 14 members of Congress that "something went wrong" involving "mistreatment of POWs" at Abu Ghraib prison. Separately, a suspended Army officer in Iraq (news - web sites) wrote to Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania that he was being unfairly punished after "pictures of naked prisoners" were discovered. He sent the letter six weeks before the CBS program "60 Minutes II" first broadcast photographs of the prisoners on April 28. The strongest reply any of them got was a...