Dutch soldiers abused Iraqi prisoners: report

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Source: Reuters

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Three Dutch military intelligence officers may have broken interrogation rules in 2003 while questioning prisoners in Iraq, Dutch television program NOVA said.

NOVA said it obtained excerpts of an independent committee's report prepared for the Dutch Ministry of Defense describing the use of head covers and electrodes during questioning.

A committee spokesman declined to confirm or deny the NOVA report, aired late on Tuesday, but added he "had ideas" about how parts of the committee's report may have been leaked.

A Defense Ministry spokesman said the ministry would comment when the committee's report was published in mid-June.

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1. What exactly did they do?

The report says they broke the interrogation rules, but what did they do? Will there be any fall-out to this?