Col. submits Guantanamo investigation

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An Army officer has finished his investigation into allegations of detainee abuse at Guantanamo Bay and submitted the report to superiors, according to a military spokesman.

Col. Richard Basset's report, commissioned after several guards allegedly acknowledged beating detainees, is being reviewed, said Army Col. Bill Costello, a spokesman for the U.S. Southern Command, who spoke by telephone Saturday.

Army Brig. Gen. Edward Leacock, deputy commander of detention operations, said guards who allegedly told a Marine sergeant in September that they regularly beat detainees have not been disciplined pending results of the investigation.

Leacock said no mistreatment is tolerated, and he dismissed accusations of routine abuse at the military prison where about 430 men are held on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban.


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