USATODAY.com - Army investigating new allegations of prisoner abuse: "The Human Rights Watch report detailed severe, routine beatings of detainees by the 82nd Airborne Division. One of the sergeants told the group that military intelligence personnel, eager for information, often instructed soldiers to 'smoke' detainees — called Persons Under Control or PUCs — during questioning, according to the report. 'Smoking' prisoners meant physically abusing them until they lost consciousness.
Frustrated soldiers would often beat the Iraqis as a stress release, the sergeant said.
'In a way it was sport,' the sergeant said. 'One day (another sergeant) shows up and tells a PUC to grab a pole. He told him to bend over and broke the guy's leg with a mini-Louisville Slugger, a metal bat.'
The soldier said anything short of death was acceptable. 'As long as no PUCs came up dead, it happened,' he said. 'We kept it to broken arms and legs.'"
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