Iraqi teenage prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison were sodomised and intimidated by using military dogs as part of a sadistic game by US military officers, an army investigation into the prison scandal has found, a media report said. The investigation report by Major General George R Ray has also expanded the circle of soldiers considered responsible for abuse beyond the seven military police soldiers already facing charges, to include more than a dozen others — low ranking soldiers, civilian contractors and medics.

"It had nothing to do with interrogation. It was just them on their own being weird," an army officer familiar with the report was quoted saying by the media report. The report, which is yet to be published, criticises the military leadership, from the prison and up through the highest levels of the US chain of command in Iraq at the time. However, it recommends no action against them. Some of the boys at the prison were only 15 years old.

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