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...camera tormenting Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison did it for sport. In statements he gave to military investigators looking into the allegations of abuse last January, Sivits depicted a sordid camaraderie in which a handful of young soldiers willingly followed the lead of the older Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick and Specialist Charles Graner into perverse revelry. Sivits described nights of violence and debauchery, during which soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company joked and laughed and subjected the prisoners under their control to sexual humiliation and physical pain. When detainees were reluctant to strip, he said, Graner punched...
...officers and private contractors to "set physical and mental conditions for favorable interrogation of witnesses." Taguba took testimony supporting this from several of those who were eventually charged, including Specialist Sabrina Harman, 26, and Sergeant Javal Davis, 26. In a sworn statement, Harman told investigators, "It is Graner and Frederick's job to do things for MI and OGA [other government agencies] to get these people to talk." Her own job, she said, was to stress detainees by keeping them awake...
...mails that Frederick sent home suggest he took pride in his role in "softening up" detainees for the MI staff. "They usually don't allow others to watch them interrogate, but since they like the way I run the prison, they make an exception," he told a family member in an e-mail shared with TIME. The sergeant also boasted, "We have a very high [success] rate with our style of getting them to break. They usually end up breaking within a couple of hours." Around the time military officials launched a criminal investigation, Frederick's e-mails started...
...what they say is the true character of their friends and loved ones. Sabrina Harman is so tenderhearted, attests her stepmother Patricia Harman, "she picks up bugs and puts them outside" rather than kill them. England, said her sister Jessica Klinestiver, would give money to anyone who needed it. Frederick, his uncle insists, was no prisoner abuser back home but "actually saved the life of a prisoner who was hanging himself. He got him down and got him breathing," says Lawson. "He received an award from the Governor of Virginia...
...free-lance sadism will presumably become clearer when the accused men and women of the 372nd face the criminal-justice system. The equivalent of a grand jury that is under way will probably lead in coming weeks to courts-martial that could result in punitive discharges or imprisonment. Frederick, who was in charge of the others and thus appears to be most culpable, is likely to be tried first. He and five others facing charges remain on duty in Iraq, although the unit has been transferred out of Abu Ghraib. England has been sent to Fort Bragg in North Carolina...