Abu Ghraib Guards Were Scapegoats, U.S. Lawyers Say
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - Two military guards implicated  in the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal in Iraq were good soldiers  caught in a muddled chain of command at a chaotic prison, their  lawyers said at the start of pretrial hearings on Saturday.
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FORT HOOD, Texas -- In the first full-scale court-martial stemming from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, a military jury yesterday convicted Army Reserve Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr. on five counts of assault, maltreatment, and conspiracy in connection with the beating and humiliation of detainees in Iraq.
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The US Defence Department&#39;s most senior civilian and military officials share a portion of blame for creating conditions that led to the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, according to a new report.
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Conditions at the Abu Ghraib prison were so "deplorable" that rats and wild dogs were a common sight and edible food and water were scarce, a witness testified Wednesday in the penalty phase for a soldier who has pleaded guilty to abusing detainees.
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Investigators said Saturday some military personnel implicated in the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal were involved in deaths and abuses of detainees in Afghanistan.
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The fallout from the killing of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians by Marines could undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq more than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal did, a lawmaker who is a prominent war critic said Sunday.
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MANNHEIM, Germany - A key suspect in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison voiced fear he was being made a scapegoat when he was asked to turn over a laptop computer and other evidence suspected of containing photos of the maltreatment, an investigator told a U.S. military court Monday...
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MANNHEIM - Defence lawyers probed Monday for prosecution errors at a pre-trial, military court hearing dealing with four US soldiers implicated in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
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The attorney for a soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal said Thursday the government is trying to intimidate defense lawyers and witnesses by making them sign
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Spec. Charles A. Graner Jr. and other Abu Ghraib guards beat up and humiliated detainees at the Baghdad prison simply for the fun of it, prosecutors told a jury Friday during closing arguments.
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Defense attorneys for a military police soldier charged with detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq argued in court Monday that their client was a pawn in
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FORT HOOD, Texas - A lawyer for a soldier accused in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal claims that public positions taken by President Bush and military leaders have made it impossible for his client to get a fair trial by a military jury.
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A U.S. Army investigation into abuse  at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq finds they resulted from failures  of leadership at the highest levels of command, the Washington  Post reported on Friday.
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Three British soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi detainees are unfairly shouldering the blame while senior officers face lesser charges, a defense lawyer said in a landmark war crimes trial Monday.
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U.S. military intelligence soldiers  and civilian contractors working with them were directly  involved in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail to  a greater extent than previously acknowledged, an Army report  released on Wednesday found.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - The U.S. military prison guard  convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib said on  Saturday he complained repeatedly to superiors about the rough  treatment he was forced to mete out to prisoners.
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The U.S. military prison guard convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib said Saturday he complained repeatedly to superiors about the rough treatment he was forced to mete out to prisoners.