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...love and no pity. A couple of hours after dinner on June 5, someone came into the hut and said quietly, "Get to bed early tonight, fellows." We'd all seen the loading list on the bulletin board. From the size of the list, it looked like a maximum effort. I climbed into bed and went right to sleep. It was probably 2 a.m. when some guy who had the duty that night shook my shoulder and told me to get up, have breakfast and report for briefing. We got dressed, and as I was walking past the bunk...
...Hell no," he answered, "because our command would have slammed us. If they saw what was going on, there would be hell to pay." Sivits--who faces a special court-martial this week on charges revolving around photographing the maltreatment--is expected to plead guilty in exchange for a maximum sentence of a year in jail--and to repeat his testimony against the other accused...
...wake of criticism of the fund-manager salaries, the management company board voted to lower the cap on maximum compensation...
Specialist Charles Graner, 35, a former Marine, is also a prison guard, having worked since 1996 at a maximum-security prison in southwestern Pennsylvania. Those who subscribe to the bad-apple theory of what went wrong can find a few nasty morsels to chew on in Graner's biography. He has a history of violence against his ex-wife Staci, who has obtained at least three restraining orders against him since they separated in 1997. According to the New York Times, Staci charged in a 1998 court document that "Charles picked me up and threw me against the wall...
...Britain's self-respect and image in the world is on the line as never before. Or so the argument goes. But the Prime Minister insists he will "remain shoulder to shoulder" with Bush. In a newspaper interview last week, he dismissed "this idea that at the time of maximum difficulty you start messing around your main ally." And Blair is right, because his main responsibility must be to get the best possible outcome for Iraq. The charge that Blair has supported the Americans in a bad war without "getting" anything in return is misconceived. Blair...