"Two of the most serious charges against US officer Lieutenant Colonel Steven Jordan, who is charged over the 2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, were dropped after an investigator acknowledged that he failed to read Jordan his rights during a 2004 interview.
Jordan has been charged with illegally approving the use of dogs in interrogations and allowing the mistreatment of prisoners to continue.
He was charged after photographs surfaced showing US military guards abusing naked detainees at the Iraqi jail in 2003 and 2004.
Jordan is the only US officer charged in connection with the abuse scandal and is pleading innocent to the remaining charges, saying he is being used as a scapegoat.
Eleven soldiers have already been convicted of abusing Iraqi detainees at the prison in 2003 and 2004.
Jordan is the last of 12 defendants to be court-martialled."
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