Army Report Finds 'Serious Misconduct' at Abu Ghraib

NPR | By Eric Westervelt

Published August 25, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

An Army investigation finds that more than two dozen members of an intelligence unit at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq either requested abuses of prisoners there or went along with them. The head of the investigation says there was "serious misconduct and a loss of moral values" at Abu Ghraib. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

Eric Westervelt

Eric Westervelt is a San Francisco-based correspondent for NPR's National Desk. He has reported on major events for the network from wars and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa to historic wildfires and terrorist attacks in the U.S.

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