Fischer condemns prisoner abuses ahead of US talks

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BERLIN - On the eve of Monday's trip to Washington, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer demanded that the United States punish those responsible for abusing prisoners in Iraq.

Using unusually harsh terms, Fischer said he was "shocked and disgusted" by photographs and reports of human-rights violations at US-run prisons in Baghdad.

"Those responsible must be punished," he said in a weekend speech to Greens party delegates attending a state-wide party congress in Berlin.

"In the battle against terrorism, the law must not be defended through lawlessness," he said.
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