Army Drops Prisoner Abuse Charges

EL PASO, Texas (AP) - The Army has dropped criminal charges against a soldier accused of abusing a mentally retarded detainee in Afghanistan. Spec. Nathan A. Jones, one of 14 soldiers implicated in the abuse investigation, will probably receive a letter of reprimand for dereliction of duty but will not be court-martialed, Fort Bliss officials said Wednesday.

Jones, a reservist with Ohio's 377th Military Police Company, had been accused of kneeing or kicking a detainee named Zarif Khan in the thigh at the Bagram detention center in 2002 and then lying about it. Army prosecutors declined to comment.

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