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'More US soldiers must stand trial'

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Sister of slain detainee insists justice has still not been served

The sister of a man killed in Abu Ghraib prison and photographed with a US soldier convicted of abusing prisoners has demanded more servicemen be brought to justice.

US Army Specialist Charles Graner, the reputed ringleader of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, was sentenced to 10 years in prison at the weekend for physically and sexually mistreating detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

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'I don't think of it as one person who killed Monathel - it was a group of people,' said Montaha al-Jumaily of her brother's death.

When photos of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison began appearing on television last April, Ms Jumaily had been searching for her brother for seven months.

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'Then we saw the pictures on television,' she said, referring to snapshots of Graner and other soldiers posing - smiling with thumbs up - with the body of her brother, who had been tortured to death in November 2003.

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