U.S. Disciplines 2 Guantanamo Bay Guards

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Promising a broader investigation, the U.S. military acknowledged Wednesday that two guards at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had been disciplined over allegations of prisoner abuse.

Air Force Capt. Laurie Arellano, a spokeswoman at Southern Command in Miami, also said a third U.S. guard faced abuse allegations but was cleared of wrongdoing.

The two guards were given administrative punishments, which often range from letters of reprimand to base restrictions, Arellano told The Associated Press.

She said it was not clear what type of abuse allegedly occurred or whether any of the three guards were still at Guantanamo, where some 600 detainees are being held on alleged links to Afghanistan's Taliban regime or al-Qaida network.

Military officials were still investigating the three cases, which had not been submitted to a court, and whether any other complaints of prisoner abuse had been made.

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