Word: traill
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...Gordon Traill, a former warrant officer who served in secdet 4 in Baghdad in early 2004, says he was not aware that any videos of his fellow troops had been posted on the Web. But he confirmed that photography by soldiers is tolerated. "The only time you could not take cameras was when you went to Abu Ghraib [prison]," he says. Dr. Ben Wadham, a former Military Police member who is now a lecturer at Adelaide's Flinders University specializing in army culture, described some of the posted images as "trophy shots." He said soldiers would be admonished if they...