U.S. Army Reopens Probe of Iraqi Scientist's Death

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The U.S. Army says it has reopened an investigation into the suspected bludgeoning death of a key Iraqi government scientist in American custody, a chemist who allegedly experimented with poisons on prisoners in the days of Saddam Hussein.

Mohammad Munim al-Izmerly, 65, is the only known weapons scientist among at least 96 detainees who have died in U.S. custody in Iraq. Questions have surrounded the death ever since his body was dropped off at a Baghdad hospital in February 2004, two weeks after he died.

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U.S. Army Reopens Probe of Iraqi Scientist's Death

When it first came to light in press reports in May, the U.S. military, newly under fire for prisoner abuse in Iraq, refused to...

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