Rumsfeld implicated in prisoner abuse scandal
Rumsfeld is toast:
Rumsfeld backed prisoner abuse
BBC NEWS US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been accused of personally authorising a secret programme that encouraged abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
An article in The New Yorker magazine says Mr Rumsfeld extended a programme already in use in Afghanistan.
The operation encouraged coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners to gain intelligence, it says.
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