Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) walks into a special closed meeting of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (news - web sites) also attended by senior figures of the U.S. army on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 4, 2004. Vice Chief of staff of the U.S. Army, General George Casey appeared at the committee which is investigating the events surrounding the alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops. The U.S. military has brought charges of assault, cruelty and maltreatment against six soldiers, members of a military police battalion. It has also reprimanded six officers in connection with abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison after photographs were broadcast around the world showing naked Iraqi prisoners stacked in a pyramid or positioned to simulate sex acts. REUTERS/Jason Reed
