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| | Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | But, the Administration claims that prisoners taken in Afghanistan did not qualify as prisoners of war under international law. | | | Sabrina Harman was sentenced on May 17, 2005 to six months in prison and a bad conduct discharge after being convicted on six of the seven counts. | | | Donald J. Ryder, stated that the conditions under which prisoners were held sometimes violated the Geneva Conventions. |
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| | Prisoners have the right to appeal any internment decision and have their cases reviewed. | | | No criminal proceedings were suggested for Karpinski; apparently, the loss of promotion and the indignity of a public rebuke were seen as enough punishment. | | | They fell into three loosely defined categories: common criminals; security detainees suspected of “crimes against the coalition”; and a small number of suspected “high-value” leaders of the insurgency against the coalition forces. |
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| | Abu Ghraib - SourceWatch |
| | "Abu Ghraib was known as a colossal dungeon where the silent screams of its captives became the symbol of state terror. | | | Walter Wojdakowski, Sanchez's chief deputy, convened a meeting (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.prison16may16,0,703566.story?coll=bal-home-headlines) at which certain legal issues emerging at the prison were discussed (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.congress20may20,0,2455064.story?coll=bal-news-nation). | | | Suzanne Goldenberg, "US to demolish Abu Ghraib jail and punish its general," (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1224116,00.html) Guardian/UK, May 25, 2004. |
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| | Lynndie England Convicted in Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse Scandal |
| | The prison abuse scandal damaged the United States’ image in the Muslim world. | | | Lynndie England has been convicted on six of the seven criminal counts in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse case. | | | Two other prison guards were convicted and the other six made plea bargains. |
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| | CNN.com - Judge: Abu Ghraib a crime scene - Jun 21, 2004 |
| | The deal allows him to testify against other soldiers involved in the abuse at the prison. | | | Gallery: Abuse at Abu Ghraib prison (Contains graphic content. | | | Womack said he was asking for legal memos prepared for senior officials "that defined torture and showed that these acts were not torture and that these prisoners were not subject to the Geneva Conventions." |
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| | England to face retrial in Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal |
| | While England is reported to have been offered a deal of just 30 months in prison for her guilty plea in May, no such deal was on the table now, the army and England's attorney said. | | | The information contained in the AFP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Agence France Presse. | | | Lynndie England leaves the court at Fort Hood in May 2005. |
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| | CBS News Abuse Of Iraqi POWs By GIs Probed May 4, 2005 11:56:16 |
| | But so far, none of the interrogators at Abu Ghraib are facing criminal charges. | | | Frederick's letters and email messages home also offer clues to problems at the prison. | | | Is there any indication that similar actions may have happened at other prisons? |
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| | Army General Demoted Due to Abu Ghraib Scandal - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source |
| | It was Karpinski's reserve unit that was in charge of the Abu Ghraib prison compound when the abuse took place. | | | Most came in the form of letters of reprimand and/or administrative punishments. | | | More than one dozen lower ranking officers who were not named also received some form of punishment. |
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| | JURIST - Paper Chase: Fourth US soldier found guilty in Abu Ghraib prison scandal |
| | JURIST's Paper Chase has ongoing coverage of the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal. | | | For a one-stop snapshot of the latest legal news that matters, with breaking documents, new legal videos, live law-related webcasts, commentary by expert law professors and more - all updated through the day in real time, with no ads and no registration barriers - visit JURIST's homepage and check back often... | | | JURIST - Paper Chase: Fourth US soldier found guilty in Abu Ghraib prison scandal |
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| | Army Implicates 28 U.S. Troops in Deaths of 2 Afghan Detainees |
| | At the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, an officer from the battalion, Capt. Carolyn A. Wood, crafted a chart that spelled out the types of interrogation tactics that were permitted and which methods required special approval. | | | An involuntary-manslaughter conviction could result in a 10-year prison term and dishonorable discharge. | | | In Habibullah's case, the clots led to a pulmonary embolism. |
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| | Abu Ghraib whistleblower testifies. 07/08/2004. ABC News Online |
| | Sergeant Joseph Darby was testifying on the fourth day of a special hearing for Private Lynndie England, one of six people facing a possible court martial for abusing Iraqi detainees at the facility. | | | The hearing will decide if England has to face a court martial and up to 38 years in jail. | | | The decision on who is actually called to appear is left to the discretion of the presiding judge. |
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| | More than 300 inmates leave Abu Ghraib prison - Iraq Abuse Scandal - MSNBC.com |
| | Miller said 300 to 400 detainees per week are either released outright or transferred to the Iraqi justice system. | | | At least five other buses left the prison. | | | The coalition periodically releases prisoners from the notorious Saddam-era jail on the western outskirts of Baghdad where abuses of prisoners by American soldiers have erupted into a major scandal and damaged the credibility of the U.S.-led coalition governing Iraq. |
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| | washingtonpost.com: Abu Ghraib Prison |
| | Military Court Hears Abu Ghraib Testimony: Witness in Graner Case Says Higher-Ups Condoned Abuse | | | Defense Rests in Abuse Court-Martial: Judge Refuses to Allow Efforts to Determine Role of Officers at Abu Ghraib Prison | | | The annual State Department report says that upholding human rights will be key to assessing relations with other countries, but omits mention of U.S. prison abuse scandals in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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| | Abuse - Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse Scandal |
| | This being a "Women's Issue", the problem was swept under the carpet for generations and only recently has it come to public awareness. | | | • Prisoner Photos (viewer discretion) • Abu Ghraib Prison... | | | Another form of control by proxy is to engineer situations in which abuse is inflicted upon another person. |
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| | Timeline: Iraq Prison Abuse Scandal |
| | Rumsfeld agrees to testify before the Senate committee on May 7. | | | 19: Sanchez asks for a high-level review of prison procedures. | | | Army officials give Senate committee a private briefing. |
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| | Iraq Prison Scandal Resources - by News |
| | Sworn Statements by Agu Ghraib Detainees (May 22) | | | Yoo-Delahunty-Philbin Memos on Geneva Convention (Released May 21) | | | Here are some basic documents surrounding the Iraq prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere: |
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| | USATODAY.com - National and International News |
| | Graner in court Soldier accused in Abu Ghraib scandal tried to seek dismissal. | | | Charles Graner, the alleged ringleader in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse case, said under cross-examination Wednesday that Graner routinely disobeyed orders while serving as a guard there. | | | NEWARK, N.J. An Army sergeant accused in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal will plead guilty to reduced charges next week as part of a deal with military prosecutors, his lawyer said Thursday. |
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| | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . COMMENTARY . Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse Scandal . May 14, 2004 PBS |
| | Soldiers, however, are not to be so desensitized that they become willing to commit inhumane acts toward enemy prisoners. | | | While each soldier must be held responsible for his or her individual acts, we must not use them as scapegoats. | | | This abuse of prisoners was morally wrong and pragmatically disastrous, too. |
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| | BBC NEWS Americas Rumsfeld awaits Abu Ghraib report |
| | Four of the seven soldiers charged with cruelty and maltreatment of prisoners at the prison have been facing preliminary hearings at US barracks in Mannheim, Germany, to decide whether they should stand trial. | | | The panel was appointed by Mr Rumsfeld at the height of the scandal in May. | | | Defence officials briefed on the imminent report told the New York Times that Mr Rumsfeld would escape direct accusations of misconduct and of ordering polices that encouraged prisoner abuse. |
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| | Abu Ghraib Cover-up Intensifies by Chris Farrell |
| | Meanwhile, Congressional efforts to gain access to documents on the Abu Ghraib case and related issues have been frustrated. | | | The Abu Ghraib investigation whitewash I reported on last week is intensifying as the Defense Department moves to squelch document production in response to Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") requests by public interest groups and members of the media. | | | "We have been instructed to refer all requests for information referring to detainee abuse to the Department of Defense [Pentagon FOIA office]," a CENTCOM FOIA officer wrote. |
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| | Graner Defense Rests in Abu Ghraib Abuse Case |
| | Defense attorneys for the accused ringleader of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, Specialist Charles Graner Jr., rested their case on Thursday without Graner testifying on his own behalf. | | | Graner Defense Rests in Abu Ghraib Abuse Case | | | 'The detainees had information that the interrogators had to find out.' Contradictions remain the Graner case and the Abu Ghraib scandal as a whole. |
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| | CBC News Indepth: Iraq - Abu Ghraib |
| | One is legal: the actions of individuals in the U.S. armed forces come under that country's Uniform Code of Military Justice. | | | Government pressure to support the troops was a key factor in the court case some critics have called a whitewash of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. | | | However, both in Yugoslav and Japanese court cases, investigators traced the trail through command channels to learn who gave the actual orders. |
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| | Interrogator Says He Instructed Prison Guards |
| | Ricardo Sanchez told Senators in May that he didn't authorize the use of improper interrogation techniques at Abu Ghraib. | | | civilian interrogator at Abu Ghraib prison last fall admitted in a signed statement that he told Army reserve guards what to do, and he outlined intelligence-gathering protocols that may have violated Army regulations. | | | Lynndie England's legal team regarded Stefanowicz' testimony as evidence that prison guards carried out the orders of members of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, which Sanchez had put in operational control of the prison Nov. 19. |
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| | Pocono Record Online: Abu Ghraib witness claims England abused prisoners |
| | Jeremy C. Sivits, of Hyndman, Pa., testified at a hearing in England's case that he helped escort one detainee into the Baghdad prison one night in December 2003. | | | Sivits pleaded guilty in the scandal and is serving a year in prison. | | | There was conflicting testimony about whether military police controlled the area where the abuse occurred or, as England's attorneys contend, military intelligence was calling the shots. |
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| | Graner's Lawyer Points Finger at Chain of Command - Los Angeles Times |
| | He faces 17 1/2 years in prison, a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of pay. | | | Womack said several top officials at the prison have refused to testify at the trial for fear their testimony would be used against them. | | | Graner appeared buoyed by his lawyer's confidence that they would prevail at trial. |
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| | Female US soldier admits Abu Ghraib abuse - After Saddam - www.smh.com.au |
| | Skip directly to: Search Box, Section Navigation, Content. | | | Specialist Jeremy Sivits was sentenced May 19 to a year after pleading guilty to three abuse charges. | | | The third of seven US soldiers charged in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal has pleaded guilty, and was demoted and docked a half-month's pay. |
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| | CBC News: Report blames low-level troops for Abu Ghraib abuses |
| | One pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against the others. | | | Seven military police soldiers have been charged in the abuse scandal of Iraqi prisoners that sparked international outrage. | | | The report will find that American commanders created conditions that allowed abuses to occur at the prison because they failed to provide leadership and sufficient resources, the Times said. |
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| | DECLASSIFIED REPORT MAY HURT ADMINISTRATION'S CASE: The government's latest tactic to win public support for its case may be backfiring. | | | Three of the seven soldiers implicated in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal appeared at pre-trial hearings today, continuing to argue their behavior was sanctioned or encouraged at the highest levels of the U.S. government. | | | SOLDIERS 'FOLLOWING ORDERS' FROM ABOVE: In maintaining "their clients were simply following orders to treat Iraqi detainees harshly and that the instructions came from the highest levels of the U.S. government," lawyers for the defendants are following the advice of the government memo leaked in draft form to the Wall Street Journal earlier this month. |
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| | NPR : Improvements to Abu Ghraib Prison Follow Abuse Scandal |
| | Here are copies of thereports that NPR has obtained: | | | Improvements to Abu Ghraib Prison Follow Abuse Scandal | | | All Things Considered, June 11, 2004 · In the wake of the prisoner abuse scandal at the now-notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad, U.S. military authorities make some significant changes. |
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| | Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse reports/Gallery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The word "rapeist" (sic) was written on the right buttock of one detainee. | | | This prisoner appears dead, wrapped in cellophane and packed in ice. | | | These prisoners were made to simulate oral sex (while still wearing their hoods). |
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| | ABU GHRAIB PROBE: Report faults soldiers, leadership for abuse of Iraqi prisoners |
| | The report described the abuse as "acts of brutality and purposeless sadism" and said -- as have others who reviewed the case -- that the soldiers involved were not acting on approved orders or policies. | | | The report is one of several that have examined various aspects of the abuse scandal, which rocked the Bush administration and triggered calls by some in Congress for Rumsfeld to resign. | | | Senior leaders did not establish clear guidelines on permissible techniques for interrogating various categories of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq, the report said. |
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| | Boston.com / News / Nation / Soldier wrestled with decision to report Iraq jail abuse |
| | England faces up to 38 years in prison for her role in the abuse scandal. | | | Others have received letters of reprimand, including the MP unit's company commander and the general overseeing prison operations in Iraq. | | | Specialist Jeremy Sivits, who pleaded guilty, is serving a year in military prison. |
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| | US military guard in Abu Ghraib scandal gives birth - INQ7.net |
| | trial by court martial in January on charges of conspiracy to mistreat prisoners, assault and indecent acts. | | | She faces up to 38 years in prison if convicted. | | | This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
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| | 10-year-sentence for soldier in Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal |
| | Holley, the co-prosecutor, said in his final statement that Graner was a disgrace to the military and urged the 10 jurors to send him to prison for the maximum sentence. | | | He also was demoted to private and ordered to forfeit all pay and benefits. | | | Graner did not testify during his trial, but during the sentencing phase Saturday he took the witness stand to repeat the defense claim that the jury clearly rejected: that he had been ordered by intelligence agents at Abu Ghraib to abuse the prisoners to make them easier to interrogate. |
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| | ABC News: Harman Tells Her Story |
| | Sabrina Harman, facing charges in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, talks with "20/20" about what she saw at the prison. | | | Harman, 27, said she never hurt anyone, but she was involved with some of the prison scandal's most iconic photos. | | | Sabrina Harman, one of seven Army Reservists charged in the abuse of prisoners in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, told "20/20" she wishes she could apologize to the Iraqi people, but doesn't think she did anything wrong while she was stationed as a guard at the prison. |
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| | CNN.com - Rumsfeld twice offered to resign during Abu Ghraib scandal - Feb 4, 2005 |
| | The Washington Post reported in May that President Bush "privately admonished" Rumsfeld for his handling of the prison abuse scandal. | | | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says he twice offered President Bush his resignation during the height of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, but the president refused to accept it. | | | Rumsfeld twice offered to resign during Abu Ghraib scandal |
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| | Newsday.com: Prison Scandal Charges Reduced for Soldier |
| | Jeremy C. Sivits, who pleaded guilty May 19 and was sentenced to a year in prison. | | | Crawford asked the court to approve a civilian prison psychologist as an expert witness, who she said could help persuade a jury how the conditions at the prison might have affected her client's judgment. | | | MANNHEIM, Germany -- A U.S. military policewoman accused in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal had the charges against her reduced Wednesday as a set of pretrial hearings wrapped up at an American base in Germany. |
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| | The Hoya Attorney Discusses Abu Ghraib Abuse |
| | Volzer said that the Geneva Convention was not posted in the prison until 2004, after the Army became aware of the prison abuse. | | | Citing an Aug. 1, 2003, memo from the office of the assistant attorney general, Volzer said that everything that happened in the prison was approved by military intelligence. | | | A defense attorney in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal expressed harsh criticism for top U.S. Army officials in a speech Wednesday night in Reiss Auditorium. |
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| | Commanders trade blame about abuse at Abu Ghraib |
| | Seven soldiers under her command have been charged with crimes in connection with prisoner abuse. | | | Jeremy Sivits, was sentenced to up to one year in prison and given a bad conduct discharge. | | | According to the Army, many of the abuses -- including humiliation, physical abuse and possible killings of prisoners -- occurred sometime last fall through December, when Karpinski was in command of the military police unit at the prison. |
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| | I will be pleading guilty to certain charges because I have concluded that what I did was a violation of law. | | | Regarding the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, two reports have been released this week, both of which go beyond the actions of the Reservists and hold to account both the military command structure and military intelligence officers at the prison. | | | "I have accepted responsibility for my actions at Abu Ghraib prison. |
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| | The government of President Hosni Mubarak eventually acceded and approved an investigatory visit -- which proved to be short-lived -- to a prison facility. | | | According to a complaint made available to IPS by a group of lawyers and submitted to the newly formed semi-official Egyptian Council on Human Rights, Abideen reported to the attorney-general that he was electrocuted in different parts of his body, including his genitals. | | | He said that officers used terms like "give him estakoza" -- which meant that he would be electrocuted on his head, chest and back -- and the new code term, "give him the Abu Ghraib way" in which soldiers would use electricity on his penis and anus. |
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| | New Details of Prison Abuse Emerge (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Exclusive Video: Video excerpt obtained by The Washington Post and edited for posting depicts prison abuse. | | | The disclosures come from a new cache of documents, photographs and videos obtained by The Post that are part of evidence assembled by Army investigators putting together criminal cases against soldiers at Abu Ghraib. | | | Two previous reports were issued on abuses in Iraq. |
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| | The judge also ordered Krol reduced in rank to private and that he receive a bad-conduct discharge after serving his prison term. | | | FORT HOOD, Texas -- A judge at Fort Hood sentenced a reservist Tuesday in an intelligence unit operating at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. | | | Specialist Roman Krol of Randolph, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and maltreating detainees suspected of raping a teenage boy at the unit. |
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| | Abu Ghraib Prison Abuse Scandal Hits Home |
| | Interrogation Policy App'd by LTG Sanchez (prisoners of war) | | | Rumsfeld Response in Abuse Case Delayed; U.S. to Defend Officers | | | Report Cites Lack of Training, Supervision in Prisoner Abuse Cases |
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| | Yet, what makes the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal truly appalling is that it was perpetrated by a country that was made to be the cradle of democracy and champion of human rights. | | | Arab liberals must be truly disappointed by the practices of the US army in Iraq; but their greatest concern must be the impact of these images on Arab governments. | | | We, nevertheless, disagree with the claim that the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal was an isolated incident and that "the actions of the people in that prison do not reflect the nature of the men and women who wear [US] uniform." |
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| | TalkLeft: First Intelligence Officers to be Charged in Abu Ghraib Abuse Scandal |
| | TalkLeft: First Intelligence Officers to be Charged in Abu Ghraib Abuse Scandal | | | That's about to change as charges are ready to be filed against two military intelligence officers, Spc. | | | First Intelligence Officers to be Charged in Abu Ghraib Abuse Scandal |
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| | U.S. secretary of defense, was reprimanded by President Bush in May for his handling of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq. | | | Although the Pentagon launched an investigation into the misconduct in January 2004, President Bush and Congress did not learn of the extent of the abuse until April, when photos documenting the humiliation and torture of Iraqi prisoners were broadcast on | | | Following the war in Iraq, Rumsfeld was repeatedly criticized by both Democrats and Republicans for a lack of prewar planning and for not deploying an adequate number of troops. |
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| | NPR : U.S. Officer Implicated in Abu Ghraib Prison Death |
| | All Things Considered, June 25, 2004 · Preliminary hearings in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal begin in Baghdad with a bombshell allegation: A witness testifies that a U.S. colonel in military intelligence helped to cover up the beating death of a detainee. | | | U.S. Officer Implicated in Abu Ghraib Prison Death | | | NPR : U.S. Officer Implicated in Abu Ghraib Prison Death |
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