European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 7 a commander of prison in Iraq faces trial stars and stripes the former commander of a prison in Iraq is headed to a court martial for allegedly allowing detainees to make unsupervised phone Calls using his cell according to a multinational corp iraqi news if army William Steele could face the death penalty for Aid ing the of has been charged in connection with a series of incidents be tween october 2005 and february when he was head of the 451st military police detachment at Camp Cropper and later was the 89th military police Bri Gades senior patrol officer near Camp Vic Steele is also charged with having an in appropriate relationship with an interpret such acts constituted con duct unbecoming an officer in the armed failing to handle classified Docu ments correctly failure to obey an order and possessing pornographic the Munci news release none of the charges referred to a court martial on june 10 references Steele allegedly fraternizing with a detainees the news release according to testimony in previous Legal Steele allegedly exchanged emails with the detainees bought computer software for her and used government Money to buy cuban cigars and hair Dye for Saddam Hussein be fore the dictator was charges were served on Steele on 12 june the news release the government must wait five Days be fore arraignment May Steele is being held in a detention facility in Afghanistan rejects Iran Taliban weapons claim top official insists arms probably not from Tehran by Slobodan Lekic the associated press Belgium Afghanistan defense minister on thursday rejected claims by a top state department official that there was irrefutable Evi Dence that the iranian govern ment was providing arms to Tali ban we have had Good relations with Iran and we believe that the Security and stability of Afghanistan Are also in the interests of Abdul Rahim Wardak on undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns said in Paris that Tehran was directly supplying weapons to the he told can television there was irrefutable evidence that arms shipments were coming from Iran the state department later appeared to step Back from Burns but stressed that the United states has proof that weapons from Iran were reaching Tali ban fighters in Tehran has denied the accuse who is attending a nato defense ministers meeting in also played Down suggestions that iranian authorities were sending arms shipments to the there has been evidence of but it is difficult to link it to Wardak it is pos sible that they might be from from the drug mafia or from other the majority of weapons Cap tured from the insurgents have been of soviet but arms from East China and Egypt also have been he defense Secretary Robert who is attending the Brus Sels also mentioned the alleged weapons transfers from the irony is the afghan government and the iranian govern ment have pretty Good relation Gates told who was in Afghanistan last said afghan president Hamid Karzai talked to him about the Good relationship the two countries Gates speculated that Tehran May be trying to play both sides of the hedge their in a wide ranging interview with the associated Ward a said he would Appeal to the de sense ministers of nato and Al nato acts in tandem with plans for missile shield Virginia Afghanistan defense minister Abdul Rahim Wardak Speaks prior to a meeting of nato defense ministers in on lied countries to provide greater assistance in training afghan Security he said the establishment of an effective afghan air Force was a top priority because air support would enable the army to con duct Independent operations without having to rely so heavily on the International Afghanistan currently oper ates a handful of czech built l39 Jet together with some old soviet mi17 helicopters and Antonov an26 twine Gine Only at the Auto exch Nye Uini i v special no payments for 90 Days by Paul Ames the associated press Belgium nato ordered its military experts thursday to draw up plans for a possible Short Range missile de sense system to protect member nations that would be left exposed by proposed antimissile units in Central a final decision on building the nato system is not expected until next but the agree ment by defense ministers to launch the study indicates a grow ing acceptance of Washington plans among the 26 despite initial scepticism in some Europe an nations and opposition from the nato Road map on mis Sile defense is now its prac tical and if s agreed by said Jaap de hoop natos Secretary ministers also considered the Impact of russian offer to Cooper ate on using a radar base in Azer Baijan As part of a missile diplomats said defense Secre tary Robert Gates welcomed the russian offer As a basis for discus after Moscow furious reaction to the missile defense plans for the czech Republic and Gates told the closed that Washington would continue its 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