Abu Ghraib scandal haunts W.Va. reservist

[BlueJessamine]

Source: Associated Press

KEYSER, W.Va. (AP) -- More than two years since leaving her prison cell, the woman who became the grinning face of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal spends most of her days confined to the four walls of her home.

Former Army reservist Lynndie England hasn't landed a job in numerous tries: When one restaurant manager considered hiring her, other employees threatened to quit.


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She's tried dyeing her dark brown hair, wearing sunglasses and ball caps. She even thought about changing her name. But "it's my face that's always recognized," she says, "and I can't really change that."

England hopes a biography released this month and a book tour starting in July will help rehabilitate an image indelibly associated with the plight of the mistreated prisoners.

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ABU_GHRAIB_ENGLAND?SITE=NMSAN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

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On the web:

"Tortured: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and the Photographs that Shocked the World,"

http://www.amazon.com/TORTURED-Lynndie-England-Photographs-Shocked/dp/0578023709

While several books have been written about Abu Ghraib and the prisoner abuses that took place during the Iraq War, to date none of the key players in this drama have given a full account of what transpired at the prison between October and December of 2003. That is, until now. In this book, TORTURED: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and the Photographs that Shocked the World - LYNNDIE ENGLAND'S ONLY AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY - author Gary Winkler tells all. In addition to revealing the young Army Reservist's thoughts and feelings about her role in the abuse, the author delves deeper into England's twisted relationship with Corporal Charles Graner, the questionable conduct of the war and the Bush-era torture policies that contributed to the culture of abuse that came to exist at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Why the hell should I feel sorry, says girl soldier who abused Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1192701/Why-hell-I-feel-sorry-says-girl-soldier-abused-Iraqi-prisoners-Abu-Ghraib-prison.html

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Following Barack Obama's release of CIA torture files which lend credence to her claim that the ritual humiliation of prisoners was a White House sanctioned tactic during the Bush regime, she even consulted her local senator about petitioning for a Presidential pardon.

But 'sorry', it becomes clear, is not in Lynndie England's vocabulary.

When we speak, three things strike me: her breathtaking lack of contrition; her unsuitability to have been a serving soldier and her utter indifference towards the horrifically abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib, 90 per cent of whom were later released without charge.

Since no established biographer would touch her life story (it was even dropped by the literary agent who handled O.J. Simpson's widely reviled book, If I Did It) her biography has been penned by a greenhorn local author, Gary Winkler

[Robb]

1. Good. It should. /nt

[marylanddem]

2. A pawn in their game

While I have no intention of buying this book, she was a pawn.