Lawson: "But the Army decided to prosecute those six G.I.'s because they thought me and my family were a bunch of poor, dirt people who could not do anything about it. But unfortunately, that was not the case."
I'm wondering when it's going to come out that Lawson wrote Kerry? That ought to be FUN!
Soldier's Family Set in Motion Chain of Events on Disclosure By JAMES DAO and ERIC LICHTBLAU
UMBERLAND, Md., May 7 — Ivan Frederick was distraught. His son, an Army reservist turned prison guard in Iraq, was under investigation earlier this year for mistreating prisoners, and photographs of the abuse were beginning to circulate among soldiers and military investigators.
So the father went to his brother-in-law, William Lawson, who was afraid that reservists like his nephew would end up taking the fall for what he considered command lapses, Mr. Lawson recounted in an interview on Friday. He knew whom to turn to: David Hackworth, a retired colonel and a muckraker who was always willing to take on the military establishment. Mr. Lawson sent an e-mail message in March to Mr. Hackworth's Web site and got a call back from an associate there in minutes, he said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/national/08IMAG.html
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Dissension Grows In Senior Ranks On War Strategy U.S. May Be Winning Battles in Iraq, Losing the War, Some Officers Say By Thomas E. Ricks Sunday, May 9, 2004
Deep divisions are emerging at the top of the U.S. military over the course of the occupation of Iraq, with some senior officers beginning to say that the United States faces the prospect of casualties for years without achieving its goal of establishing a free and democratic Iraq.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11227-2004May8?language=printer
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[What is it with describing it as "having sex"?]
US soldiers 'seen raping woman' in new jail photos By Julian Coman in Washington and Colin Freeman in Baghdad (Filed: 09/05/2004) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/09/wtort09.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/05/09/ixnewstop.html
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For Chuck Grimes:
Abuse Suit Focuses on a Guard Involved in Earlier Scandal By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: May 7, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/07/nyregion/07guard.html
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Soldier: Unit's Role Was to Break Down Prisoners Reservist Tells of Orders From Intelligence Officers
By Jackie Spinner Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, May 8, 2004; Page A01
There were no rules, by her account, and there was little training. But the mission was clear. Spec. Sabrina D. Harman, a military police officer who has been charged with abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, said she was assigned to break down prisoners for interrogation.
"They would bring in one to several prisoners at a time already hooded and cuffed," Harman said by e-mail this week from Baghdad. "The job of the MP was to keep them awake, make it hell so they would talk." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9130-2004May7?language=printer
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Sunday Herald - 09 May 2004 How Much Did They Know?
Rumsfeld knew about the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. So did the US governor in Iraq, Paul Bremer. Even the British Ministry of Defence knew. Can we really believe that Bush and Blair didn't?
http://www.sundayherald.com/41905
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Pentagon Interrogation Guidelines Eyed in Prison Scandal U.S. Officials OK'ed Rules in 2003 for Guantanamo Bay Detainees
By Dana Priest and Joe Stephens Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, May 8, 2004; 6:45 PM
U.S. citizen-soldiers terrified, overwhelmed by chaotic Iraqi prison
Scene inside notorious Abu Ghraib jail, Red Cross says, one of complete disorder
By DOUG SAUNDERS Saturday, May 8, 2004 - Page A19
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Casualty of War (Coline Powell in GQ)
Four years into an embattled Bush administration, Colin Powell is hard at work at something he's never had to worry about before: salvaging his legacy.
By Wil S. Hylton
http://us.gq.com/plus/content/?040429plco_01