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...Fleury's liaison in the Kingdom is Col. Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhom), a by-the-book officer who simply must be a decent fellow, since we see him playing nicely with his kids too. The two men bond in standard action-movie shorthand: Fleury punches out a man who had slapped Faris. Then we hunker down to investigation scenes from some CSI: Riyadh: ditch-diggings, bullet analysis and an autopsy. Faris has his own method: he searches corpses not for fingerprints but for missing fingers. Is this a flashback to Hitchcock's The 39 Steps? No, it's evidence...
...Col. Dave Grossman, author of On Combat and On Killing, who trains the FBI and other law enforcement agencies, subscribes to that controversial notion. Grossman relates how officers raiding methamphetamine labs and gang hangouts often find violent video games left behind. "Every time they take down a gang house, there's always one thing that will always be there," Grossman says. "It's a video game. The video games are their newspaper, their television, their all-consuming narrative. And their video games are all cop-killer, criminal simulators...
Following the conviction of a few low-ranking soldiers for their roles in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, Lt. Col. Steven Jordan was reprimanded Wednesday by a 10-member jury after his conviction on only a single charge - failing to obey an order. As a result, he will spend no time in jail, after being cleared of all allegations that he abused prisoners or failed to do his duty as a senior officer at the notorious prison. The case is supposed to be the last of the criminal proceedings concerning this dark chapter of the Iraq war, but sources...
...recording of a conversation between Lt. Col. Jordan, 51, and two Army investigators in Iraq on Sept. 18, 2004, Jordan is heard informally discussing what happened at Abu Ghraib and referring repeatedly to the contracting firm CACI, the supervisors it employed, and specifically to Steven Stefanowicz, who was known as "Big Steve" around Abu Ghraib, as well as another civilian employee. The investigators were working at the time on behalf of soldiers who later became criminal defendants in the Abu Ghraib proceedings. One of the investigators told TIME that the conversation took place at Jordan's initiative...
...Still more evidence about "Big Steve" emerges in the record of another recording obtained by TIME. This record, made by an Army investigator during an interview with Col. Thomas Pappas, the former head of military intelligence at the prison, shows Pappas repeatedly trying to disassociate himself from "Big Steve" - who, Pappas says, was "out of control" and committing abuses - which the Colonel claims he spoke to colleagues or superiors about more than once. Col. Pappas - who was Jordan's superior and in charge of the entire Abu Ghraib facility for several months in 2003 and 2004 and its top ranking...