U.S. calls deaths of 26 prisoners homicides

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Now...this shit's fucked up!!! --

WASHINGTON At least 26 prisoners have died in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2002 in what U.S. Army and Navy investigators have now concluded or suspect were acts of criminal homicide, according to military officials.
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The number of confirmed or suspected unlawful killings of prisoners is much higher than any the army and the Pentagon have previously reported

A Pentagon report sent to Congress last week cited a figure of only six prisoner deaths caused by abuse, but that partial tally was limited to what the report's author, Vice Admiral Albert Church of the navy, called "closed, substantiated abuse cases" as of last September.
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The new figure of at least 26 prisoner deaths in cases of confirmed or suspected criminal homicide was provided by the army and navy this week after repeated inquiries. In 15 cases reviewed by the army and navy, investigators have now closed their inquiries and have recommended that criminal charges be filed, army and navy officials said. Eleven cases are still under investigation but are listed by the army as confirmed or suspected homicides, the officials said.

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