Byline: John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

ROME -- The colorful Swiss Guard that protects the pope is embroiled in controversy over charges that its new commander - while a police chief in Switzerland - ordered immigrant prisoners subjected to techniques of sexual humiliation made infamous by some American soldiers at Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

While Col. Daniel Anrig swore loyalty to Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Nov. 30 as the new chief of the Swiss Guard, the Turin, Italy, newspaper La Stampa and Germany's Der Spiegel magazine reported that in 2003, a ...

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