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...Army judge last week rejected a guilty plea from Private Lynndie England, the young reservist seen grinning in some of the most notorious pictures from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Her plea bargain could have reduced her jail time from 16 years to 30 months, but the case is now back to square...
When England entered her plea, she said she posed willingly for the camera--while holding a detainee on a leash--because she wanted to amuse her fellow soldiers. But England ran into trouble during her sentencing hearing when Charles Graner, the convicted ringleader of the Abu Ghraib abuses who is serving 10 years in prison, testified that he had ordered England to pose for the pictures, which he claimed were for legitimate training purposes. That prompted the judge to stop the trial and tell England, "If you honestly believe you were doing what Graner told you to do and that...
Both sophomores, both social studies concentrators, both having with some experience in more traditional Harvard productions—Singh and Ngiam came together early this year, shortly before applications for the Loeb Ex were due, with an unusual project: a docu-drama about the torture of inmates at Abu Ghraib by American soldiers...
...experience has been very rewarding,” Singh concludes. “We have intense discussions about Abu Ghraib, about what theater means, about what politics mean. From a theoretical perspective, it’s very interesting...
Whatever the failures of America’s Iraqi occupation—and from Abu Ghraib to distorted intelligence, there have been more than a few—liberals have got to recognize what the voters already see: that those mistakes are a shade of pale next to the atrocities that preceded them...