US troops accused of abusing Baghdad embassy employees

US troops accused of abusing Baghdad embassy employees

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Berlin - An incident involving US troops and Iraqi employees at the German embassy in Baghdad has frayed relations between Berlin and Washington, the weekly news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.

Three off-duty guards at the mission were detained and mishandled by US troops, according to a confidential report sent by Ambassador Hanns Schumacher to the foreign ministry in Berlin, the magazine said in a report released in advance of publication Monday.

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Mod Edit - Headline: Please use the original story headline from your source.

[edit on 3/10/2008 by JacKatMtn]

This is the freshest in the sadly neverending series of human rights abuses, rapes and civilian massacers by US troops. When will america wake up and understand the fiendish nature of 'their boys' ? When will the US army command consequently enact discipline among it's GI's ?

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Three off-duty guards at the mission were detained and mishandled by US troops, according to a confidential report sent by Ambassador Hanns Schumacher to the foreign ministry in Berlin, the magazine said in a report released in advance of publication Monday.

They left out the specifics and concentrated on the general. I've looked at this story on about 20 different sources, and none of them mention the reasons or the circumstances revolving around this.

Sounds like fuel for the anti-US propaganda bandwagon. All aboard!