Article: Jury convicts Abu Ghraib dog handler of abusing detainee

DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
06-02-2006
Dateline: FORT MEADE, Maryland
A military jury convicted an Army dog handler of tormenting an Abu Ghraib detainee in a trial that produced evidence of high-level pressure and ground-level confusion about interrogations at the prison in Iraq.

Sgt. Santos A. Cardona is the 11th soldier convicted of crimes stemming from the abuse of detainees at the prison in late 2003 and early 2004.

Cardona, 32, was convicted Thursday of dereliction of duty and aggravated assault for unlawfully threatening a detainee with his dog.

But the panel of four officers and three enlisted soldiers acquitted Cardona of other serious charges he faced, ...

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