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<p>CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Eight Marine reservists stationed at Camp Pendleton have been charged in connection with the June death of an Iraqi man who was held at a detention facility in Iraq, authorities said.</p> <p>Two of the men, Maj. Clark A. Paulus and Lance Cpl. Christian Hernandez, face negligent homicide charges, said staff Sgt. Bill Lisbon, a Marine spokesman at Camp Pendleton. Charges against the other six range from assault to dereliction of duty.</p> <p>"I think it's surprising because this is not what Marines do," Lisbon said Friday. "They don't do what these guys are being charged with."</p>

KABUL -- Afghan Defense Minister Mohammad Qasim Fahim on Wednesday denied reports of a mass grave of Taliban prisoners said to have suffocated in Northern Alliance trucks, but said an investigation had been launched. "I don't believe that there would be a mass grave in Dasht-e-Leili," Fahim said in the capital Kabul. "The Ministry of Defense has some contact with the concerned sources in the area and the province to do the exact investigation." The United States on Monday said it was looking into a *** Newsweek *** magazine report that some 1,000 Taleban prisoners may have died of asphyxiation...