Summoning the naval investigative service indicates the seriousness of the matter, and the grave consequences if American troops are found to have killed a prisoner, officials said.
Through Operation Paperback, books have been sent to just about every location where U.S. troops are found, from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan.
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He said Mr. Hussein had been reduced to "rule by terror" and cited, as many military spokesmen did during the day, an anecdote from the battlefield earlier last week in which an Iraqi woman who waved to coalition troops was found hanging from a street lamp when the soldiers returned by the same route.
On the day of the referendum, the body of Reshat Ametov, a Tatar who had protested against the seizure of the peninsula by Russian troops, was found with signs he had been tortured.
The highest rates of positive screening for behavioral health conditions were found among Army and Navy troops whose work required them to have "routine detainee exposure" — interacting with detainees for an hour or more per day.
But state TV accuses the rebels, saying barrels of chemical weapons were found as troops entered previously rebel-held districts.
Take away the context of the cinema and it would be quite easy to believe the film's conceit that the tapes were found by Northern Alliance troops somewhere near the Afghani-Pakistani border.
In the end, no explosives were found, and the troops released 15 people they had detained in the operation.
When mobile trailers were found by American troops, the White House and C.I.A. rushed out a white paper reporting that the vehicles were used to make biological agents.
