Lawyer: Iraqi Abuse Was Like Act of 'Cheerleaders'
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A lawyer for Charles Graner,  accused ringleader in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal, defended  piling naked prisoners in pyramids on Monday as valid prisoner  control and compared it to shows by cheerleaders.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A U.S. soldier at the center  of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal was said in court on  Wednesday to have often flouted instructions, undercutting his  defense that he was following orders when he humiliated and  beat prisoners.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A U.S. soldier at the center  of the scandal over abused Iraqi prisoners was said in court on  Wednesday to have often flouted instructions, undercutting his  defense that he was a man dutifully following orders when he  humiliated and beat up prisoners.
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Lawyers for Private Lynndie England attempted today to throw out statements she made when first questioned about Iraqi prisoner abuse, including that guards were just âjoking around, having some fun.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C.  - Attorneys for Lynndie England,  a U.S. soldier charged with abusing naked Iraqi inmates at  Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, asked on Wednesday to have her  early statements to investigators thrown out as evidence in her  court-martial.
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An Iraqi lawyer on Saddam Hussein's defense team has received several death threats in the last three weeks and has gone into hiding, the chief defense attorney for the deposed Iraqi leader said Monday.
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OSNABRUECK, Germany  - A lawyer for one of three  British soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi detainees accused  their commanding officer on Friday of issuing orders which led  the soldiers to face trial.
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A US Army reservist pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of abusing Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison and testified that some of the humiliating practices were dictated
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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 that their client was a pawn in a widespread policy of abusive military intelligence procedures, citing two extensive Pentagon  investigative reports released last week as evidence that the soldier was following orders.
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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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A commanding officer was as responsible for the alleged abuse of Iraq detainees as his men, a court hears.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C.  - The first U.S. soldier  convicted in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal testified on  Monday that Pfc. Lynndie England, the soldier photographed  holding an Iraqi on a leash, stomped on prisoners' fingers and  toes.
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A British army colonel accused of failing to stop soldiers from abusing Iraqi detainees said in a letter that rough conditions in southern Iraq sometimes "got the better of otherwise professional troops," prosecutors said Friday in a court-martial proceeding.
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MANNHEIM, Germany  - A U.S. soldier at the center  of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal wants his pending court  martial to be moved from Baghdad as he believes he has no  chance of a fair trial there, his lawyers said on Monday.
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MANNHEIM, Germany  - The highest-ranking U.S.  soldier accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners has reached a deal  to plead guilty to some charges at his forthcoming court  martial in Baghdad in October, one of his lawyers said on  Tuesday.
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A lawyer accused of aiding terrorism  through her defense of a militant Muslim cleric testified on  Monday she took his case because of her fight for the underdog  and her "anti-authoritative view of the world."
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Lawyers for British soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi detainees said Monday the camp had been in disarray with unsupervised troops chasing looters and prodding them with sticks to drive them into camp.