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Army paratroopers accused of beating, taunting and humiliating jounralists detained in Iraq have been given a refresher course on proper handling of detainees, even though an investigation cleared them of abuse, a spokesman said Thursday. Reuters said three Iraqis working for the news agency were physically abused and forced to put shoes in their mouths during their January 2-5 detention at a military camp.The news agency decided to make the incident public when the US Military said there was no evidence of abuse after news broke about the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prision in Baghdad.Division spokesman Major...

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq — On the eve of the first court-martial in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal, relatives of those still held at Abu Ghraib prison said Tuesday the only suitable punishment would be death -- illustrating the potential gap in expectations in the case. "If they actually committed such offenses, they should be executed," said Odai Ibrahim, 55, as he waited in a line with hundreds of other Iraqis to visit relatives at the prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad -- notorious as the site of executions and torture during Saddam Hussein's regime.