| U.S. forces investigating allegations of mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at a prison west of Baghdad have suspended 17 soldiers including a battalion commander and a company commander. Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of ground forces in Iraq, last month ordered an investigation into reports that prisoners had been abused at Abu Ghraib, a jail which was notorious during Saddam Hussein’s rule and which is now run by U.S. forces. The Army gave no details of the alleged abuse. On January 5, the U.S. Army said three soldiers had been discharged for abusing Iraqi prisoners of war at another detention camp. |