US commander accused of aiding enemy in Iraq
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BAGHDAD (AFP) - The US military charged a senior officer on Thursday with aiding the enemy and fraternising with the daughter of an inmate in a US-run prison camp, in the latest scandal to hit the military in Iraq.
And in Washington, US General David Petraeus, head of the coalition forces in Iraq, accused Iran’s secretive Quds Force of helping an armed network that killed five US soldiers in January in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala.The US military accused Lieutenant Colonel William Steele, who commanded Camp Cropper on the outskirts of Baghdad, of aiding the “enemy by providing an unmonitored cellular phone to detainees.”
He was also accused of having unauthorised possession of classified information, maintaining an improper relationship with an Iraqi interpreter, failing to obey an order and possessing pornographic videos.
The charge sheet also accuses him of “wilfully failing to fulfil obligations as an approving authority” in the expenditure of funds and of having improper contacts with the daughter of a prisoner.
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