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CONVICTED. CHARLES GRANER, 36, Army Reserve specialist and reputed ringleader of a group of 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...
...WOMACK, attorney for Charles Graner, in opening arguments to the U.S. military jury at the reservist's court-martial on charges of abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib...
...CONVICTED. CHARLES GRANER, 36, U.S. Army reservist and reputed ringleader of a group of 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...
...graduate, was at Harvard as recently as last November, when he sat on a panel at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. One of the panel’s criticisms involved the United States’ role in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal...
...microphone and camera, far from the critical and moralizing eye, and veiled from the force of law, that matters most. The actual, free exercise of power, distant from its dolled-up rhetorical intent, betrays and cancels the original intentions of its architects. The blood stains at Abu Ghraib, and the flattening of Falluja, and not the confident speeches of Rumsfeld and Bush, expose the true intentions of America’s extension of power...