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...Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and Eliot House...
...commandos have the green light to launch missions against terrorists. The command also maintains a clandestine force of several hundred undercover spies, who specialize, for example, in planting electronic sensors or scouting terrorist targets for attack. Nicknamed the Army of Northern Virginia because it is based at Fort Belvoir, outside Washington, the unit is so secretive that it frequently changes its name to throw off outsiders trying to track it. Known in the early 1980s as the Intelligence Support Activity, the outfit over the years has had code names like Capacity Gear and Gray Fox. Its operations include hunting...
...abusive guards at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison; on all five charges of assault, conspiracy, maltreatment of detainees, committing indecent acts and dereliction of duty; in the first trial arising from the international scandal that broke with the release of photos showing U.S. soldiers gleefully torturing prisoners; in Fort Hood, Texas. Jurors rejected the defense's claim that Graner was just following orders and sentenced him to 10 years in prison with a demotion to private...
...abusive guards at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison; on all five charges of assault, conspiracy, maltreat-ment of detainees, committing indecent acts, and dereliction of duty; in the first trial arising from the international scandal that broke with the release of photos showing U.S. soldiers gleefully torturing prisoners; in Fort Hood, Texas. The jury rejected the defense's claims that Graner was just following orders, as well as suggestions that he was merely engaging in "gallows humor...
Like a recurring nightmare, Abu Ghraib never quite goes away. The alleged ringleader of the horrors inflicted at the Baghdad prison, whose grin and thumbs-up over the body of a dead Iraqi prisoner became an image of national shame, showed up for his court-martial in Fort Hood, Texas, last week, with a clean shave and a solemn face. A day earlier, President George W. Bush's choice for Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, who played a large role in orchestrating, if not actually drafting, a change in the Administration's rules on torture, was asked to explain himself before...