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...with his men. He told Karim he would be back to check on the detainee in the morning. The detainee raised his thin arms and called out to Kim's translator, Specialist Mohammed Houbban, 43, of Morocco by way of Orlando. "He was begging to come with us," said Spc. Houbban as he walked out of the station. "He did not want to be left with them. And he just tried to kill us." (Check out a story about the Iraqi government's Mosul offensive...
...total of 11 soldiers have been convicted of crimes at Abu Ghraib, most prominently Pvt. Lynndie England and Spc. Charles Graner Jr., who were both featured in the photos leaked to the media, and were sentenced to three and 10 years in prison, respectively. The prison commander in Iraq at the time, Janis Karpinski, faced administrative action and was demoted from the rank of general but faced no criminal charges...
...killed by a roadside bomb, we were told. McClung was among them. I had seen her briefly only the day before, and we had plans to meet that afternoon. But it was very late at night when I finally saw her resting in the morgue alongside her slain comrades, Spc. Vincent Pomante and Capt. Travis Patriquin. I watched at the edge of the room as the medics unzipped the body bags one by one before stepping forward to take a long look at McClung...
Because no one in Batavia, a sleepy village of 1,600 on the eastern fringe of Cincinnati, Ohio, knows where Matt Maupin is, he is everywhere. SPC MATT MAUPIN--OUR PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU AND YOURS, the big electric sign at Jeff Wyler Auto Mall flashes once a minute. At the top of every hour, the local oldies radio station, WGRR, airs a booming jingle: "Joining you in all our prayers for Matt Maupin." Incongruous messages dot the strip malls along busy Route 32, which bisects Clermont County. PRAY FOR MATT MAUPIN AND FAMILY LARGE CHEESE $5.99, says the sign...
...donated candy and cookies, coffee and hot chocolate, games, toothbrushes, underwear and toiletries, to U.S. troops, largely in Iraq. Each box also contains a plastic bag with 10 small pin-on badges containing a photo of Maupin and a slip of paper: "These are pictures of our captured soldier Spc. Keith 'Matt' Maupin," it says. "Please help us find him ... The Maupin Family...