U.S. calls deaths of 26 prisoners homicides - IHT

U.S. calls deaths of 26 prisoners homicides:

"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.
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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."