Rumsfeld Tours Iraqi Prison, Visits Troops

NPR | By Peter Kenyon

Published May 13, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pays a one-day visit to Baghdad, visiting the Abu Ghraib prison complex where abuses of Iraqi prisoners in U.S. custody took place. While in the Iraqi capital, Rumsfeld also addressed troops at the heavily guarded American headquarters. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

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