Four U.S. soldiers were accused of murder in the 2002 death of a detainee in Afghanistan but the charges against all but one eventually were dropped, according to Pentagon officials who confirmed the previously undisclosed case Monday after it was uncovered by a human rights group. The Pentagon also confirmed the death of another detainee in Afghanistan this year, bringing the number of known deaths of prisoners there to eight, according to defense officials and recently released documents. Those cases, as well as a third involving the death of an Afghan soldier mistakenly arrested by U.S. forces, were highlighted Monday in a letter sent by Human Rights Watch to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Full Story
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