Hearing begins for US officer accused of 'aiding the enemy' (AFP)

US soldiers patrol the area surrounding the site of a car bomb in Baghdad's Jadiriyah district.  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.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP – A military tribunal began a hearing on Monday to decide whether a senior US officer should be prosecuted for "aiding the enemy" while serving as the commander of a prison camp in Iraq.