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...tangled nudes, the hideous hoods, the dangling wires and the dog leash, perhaps the single most shocking thing about the images from Abu Ghraib prison is the woman in so many of the pictures: smiling broadly or giving a thumbs up or just standing casually in the demented scene as if posing in a college dorm. It's the all-American face of Private First Class Lynndie England. The girl next door, a Jessica Lynch gone wrong...
What forces, internal or external, could have brought this diminutive, 21-year-old woman and her six accused comrades to this appalling pass? There is no shortage of explanations. From the moment the atrocities at Abu Ghraib came to light, military commanders, members of the Administration and, indeed, the Commander in Chief were quick to label those implicated as "bad apples." As President Bush put it, they are an exceptional "few" whose actions "do not reflect the nature of the men and women who serve our country." The families and friends of the accused, of course, say the very opposite...
...most senior member of the 372nd facing charges in the Abu Ghraib abuses is Frederick, 37, who has served with the company for 20 years. Frederick was just short of qualifying for a full pension when he was mobilized last year. Married, with two stepdaughters, ages 14 and 18, Frederick has a civilian job as a guard at a medium-security Virginia prison, where his wife Martha also works. His uncle William Lawson describes him as "very laid back" and "a practical joker." Shoemaker-Davis sees him as a "tough guy," used to being in charge: "He has a very...
...Bush before it is too late. It was bad enough that the case for war crumbled with the failure to find weapons of mass destruction and the increasing hostility of many Iraqis toward their occupiers. But with the revelations of torture and humiliation by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison - and their unhappy echo in tales of abuse by some British soldiers - Britain's self-respect and image in the world is on the line as never before. Or so the argument goes. But the Prime Minister insists he will "remain shoulder to shoulder" with Bush. In a newspaper interview...
...worked outside Fallujah in an Iraqi prison, overseeing, leading and mentoring the same type of enlisted soldiers as the seven who are now so infamous across the globe,” Moulton said. “Those young men and women at Abu Ghraib did not have good leaders. I can assure you that Meeks’ soldiers...