- (AFP) -- One of six US soldiers charged with abusing
prisoners in Iraq says she acted under direct instructions from military
intelligence who wanted the prisoners softened before interrogation, the
Washington Post has reported.
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- The newspaper says that military police officer Sabrina
Harman, who was stationed at Abu Ghraib prison, states in interviews she
was assigned to break down prisoners for interrogation.
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- "They would bring in one to several prisoners at
a time already hooded and cuffed," she was quoted as saying in the
interviews by email this week from Baghdad.
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- "The job of the MP was to keep them awake, make
it hell so they would talk."
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- She said her military police unit took direction from
the military intelligence officers in charge of the facility and from civilian
contractors who conducted interrogations, according to the Post.
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- She did not discuss the abusive treatment of prisoners,
who ordered that treatment, or any questions about the charges against
her, the paper said.
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- Ms Harman posed in a widely published photograph showing
naked Iraqi detainees stacked in a pyramid.
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- On Friday, another female soldier who appeared in a widely
published photograph leading a naked Iraqi prisoner by a leash, Private
First Class Lynndie England, 21, was charged with maltreating a detainee.
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- http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1104210.htm
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