Vatican condemns

The abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers is an offence against God and those responsible should be tried and punished, the Vatican's foreign minister said yesterday. "Violence against people offends God himself, who made humans in his own image,"...

The abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers is an offence against God and those responsible should be tried and punished, the Vatican's foreign minister said yesterday.

"Violence against people offends God himself, who made humans in his own image," Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo said in an interview with Rai's TG2 television news.

"Those responsible should be brought to justice and punished, likewise their immediate superiors who failed in the serious duty of keeping them in check," he added.

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