US soldier accused of assaulting Afghan prisoner:
- BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan: The US military has charged an American soldier in Afghanistan with assaulting an Afghan prisoner whose hands were bound, a US spokesman said on Friday. Colonel Roger King, a spokesman at US military headquarters at Bagram air base, north of Kabul, said the soldier was seen striking an Afghan detainee on the head with the butt of his M-4 carbine.
The soldier was not named while an investigation was made. “The prisoner’s hands were bound with plastic Flexi-Cuffs,” King said. “Another soldier saw it happen, and reported it.” Elements of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, were conducting operations outside Khost, in the eastern Paktia province, when the assault took place.