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...Members of Congress have also made clear to the Marines that if there are any gaps in the investigation, they will be made to go back to the drawing board immediately and answer every possible question to avoid a string of inquiries. The warning: "Don't make this Abu Ghraib. Do it right the first time." The prison scandal set off by Army reservists required repeated inquiries...
...Even so, few in the neighborhood expect the Marines to be adequately punished for their role in the massacre. They point to the Abu Ghraib trials, which many Iraqis feel have resulted in only light sentences for the offending guards. Asked what punishment would be appropriate for those who killed the 24 Iraqis on Hay al-Sinnani, Raseef responds angrily, ?There's only one appropriate punishment: a bullet in the head...
...CHARGED. Steven Jordan, 50, U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who ran the interrogation center at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; with 12 counts of military violations, including abuse of detainees, making false official statements, dereliction of duty and interfering with investigators; in Washington. Jordan is the highest-ranking person to be charged in the two-year-old prison scandal, for which several low-ranking soldiers have been convicted...
CHARGED. Steven Jordan, 50, U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who ran the interrogation center at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; with 12 counts of military violations, including abuse of detainees, making false official statements, dereliction of duty and interfering with investigators; in Washington. Jordan is the highest-ranking person to be charged in the two-year-old prison scandal, for which several low-ranking soldiers have been convicted...
...there was at least one episode at Abu Ghraib where Jordan does seem to have been personally involved. After after the death of Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner who collapsed under interrogation in CIA custody, Jordan apparently ordered that his body be put on ice, according to court testimony. Pictures of the body packed in ice with Abu Ghraib soldiers mugging for the camera later became some of the most publicized images of the scandal. Jamadi's body was kept on ice for several days and smuggled out of the prison, supposedly to avoid upsetting other detainees. Jamadi...