By MICHAEL MELIA – Mar 14, 2008

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — Abuse of prisoners by U.S. military interrogators in Afghanistan became an issue this week during separate pretrial hearings for three detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

The military revealed the interrogator of one defendant had been convicted of assaulting an Afghan detainee who later died; a lawyer for the second charged his client was abused by a soldier known as "The King of Torture;" and the third boycotted his hearing after complaining of abuse in Afghanistan.

All three defendants facing war-crimes tribunals were previously held by U.S. forces at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, which became a way station for hundreds of suspected Taliban and al-Qaida fighters who were later shipped to Guantanamo.

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