WORLD IN BRIEF : ISRAEL : Colonel Indicted for Abuse of Prisoners
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
An Israeli military court indicted an army colonel for allegedly ordering his troops to break the bones of Palestinian prisoners from two West Bank villages. Reserve Col. Yehuda Meir, a former commander of the Nablus area in the occupied West Bank, is the highest-ranking officer to face trial for brutality during the 25-month-old Palestinian uprising.
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