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...believe Specialist Jeremy Sivits, the MPs in his unit caught on camera tormenting Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison did it for sport. In statements he gave to military investigators looking into the allegations of abuse last January, Sivits depicted a sordid camaraderie in which a handful of young soldiers willingly followed the lead of the older Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick and Specialist Charles Graner into perverse revelry. Sivits described nights of violence and debauchery, during which soldiers of the 372nd Military Police Company joked and laughed and subjected the prisoners under their control to sexual humiliation and physical pain...
...other six soldiers implicated so far--Graner, Frederick, Davis and three female MPs--superior officers not only knew but approved of it all. The accused insist that military intelligence and civilian interrogators told the low-ranking MPs to soften up prisoners before they were questioned and that the unit was just doing the job. Guy Womack, Graner's civilian attorney, gave TIME copies of two photos he intends to use to defend his client, who was formally charged last week on seven counts of maltreatment and committing indecent acts. According to Graner, the photos, taken from a vantage point above...
...time leading scorer, who won six championships, has lately been focusing on a different kind of team. In his fifth book, Brothers in Arms (co-written with Anthony Walton), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 57, chronicles the 761st Tank Battalion, an all-black unit that helped liberate dozens of towns in World War II. TIME's Sean Gregory talked last week with the Hall of Famer...
...have personal connections with them on many different levels. One of the guys in the unit was a police officer with my dad. I've known him since I was 9. One of the reasons I went to UCLA was Jackie Robinson, and Jackie Robinson was the morale officer for the 761st. There are all kinds of little connections here, and they make it a very special story...
...House bill, H.R. 3966, was introduced by Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala. Under Rogers’ proposal, the secretary of defense could ask any school receiving federal funds to allow the Pentagon to establish a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) unit on campus. If the school refuses, the Pentagon could cut off nearly all federal funding to the university...