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Tue 05 May 2004Pentagon suspends prison guards chiefTHE US: The Pentagon has suspended the general who was officially in charge of prison guards at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, just hours after she publicly accused the senior US commander in Iraq of knowing more about the abuse at the prison than he admitted.Brig Gen Janis Karpinski, a reservist who commanded the 800th Military Police Brigade, now faces administrative punishment or criminal charges arising from an army investigation into the ill-treatment and photographing of Iraqi detainees.