This is a reprint from an article on the web. I am sure this makes the dems woozy with delight. More scandal to blame on Bush and his administration.

The US military charged a senior officer on Thursday with aiding the enemy and fraternising with the daughter of an inmate in a US-run prison camp, in the latest scandal to hit the military in Iraq.

And in Washington, US General David Petraeus, head of the coalition forces in Iraq, accused Iran's secretive Quds Force of helping an armed network that killed five US soldiers in January in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala.

The US military accused Lieutenant Colonel William Steele, who commanded Camp Cropper on the outskirts of Baghdad, of aiding the "enemy by providing an unmonitored cellular phone to detainees."

He was also accused of having unauthorised possession of classified information, maintaining an improper relationship with an Iraqi interpreter, failing to obey an order and possessing pornographic videos.

The charge sheet also accuses him of "wilfully failing to fulfil obligations as an approving authority" in the expenditure of funds and of having improper contacts with the daughter of a prisoner.

The charges cover a period of almost 17 months between October 1, 2005 and February 22, 2007.

Steele has been detained in Kuwait and will face a military hearing to decide whether he should face charges, military spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Josslyn Aberle told AFP in Baghdad.

"He has been detained and is now in Kuwait. His current status is that he is in confinement and waiting for his Article 32 hearing," she said.

Camp Cropper houses some "high-value" detainees, and before his execution for crimes against humanity on December 30, ousted dictator Saddam Hussein received medical treatment there.

Steele's arrest is the latest scandal to hit the US military detention system since the 2003 invasion.