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Six U.S. Soldiers Charged with Abusing Iraqi Prisoners

Six U.S. soldiers have been charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad.

It's "the kind of cancer that you have to cut out quickly. You've got to address it very, very quickly," said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the U.S. military's deputy director of operations.

17 soldiers have been suspended for abusing prisoners at the prison. As to these six,

The probe of the six MP's is being handled by the Army's Criminal Investigation Division Command. They face an Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of a grand jury, which will decide whether there is enough evidence to prosecute them, Kimmitt said.

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