Posted on 04/29/2005 6:30:23 PM PDT by wagglebee
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A female U.S. reservist soldier who posed before naked Iraqi detainees as they were abused at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison will plead guilty to seven of nine charges against her, her lawyer said on Friday.
Lynndie England, 22, became the face of the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal after photos of her posing before humiliated Iraqi prisoners were published last year. One showed her holding a naked Iraqi detainee on a leash.
She will agree on Monday at Fort Hood, Texas to a plea deal that could bring a maximum sentence of 11 years, her lawyer Capt. Jonathan Crisp told Reuters. He called her a pawn in the affair.
"Justice is being done based on the evidence that has been brought forward at this point," he said by telephone from Fort Hood where he met with prosecutors on Friday.
"The government has certainly been more amenable as of late than they were initially. I think they recognize her ultimate role in this is not what it was initially thought to be. She was a pawn."
England was facing a total of 16 and a half years in prison. After the scheduled plea on Monday, a military court will decide her punishment following the testimony of several witnesses. Crisp said he hoped it would be lower than the 11-year maximum.
"Monday she's going plead to two specifications of conspiracy, four specifications of cruelty and maltreatment and one specification of indecent acts," he said. "They are dismissing two of the charges."
Lynndie England Ping.
Interesting how the media's obsession with the "grave injustice" of Abu Ghraib faded to zip after the election was over. THe MSM is SO transparent.
If that's the case she is probably the ugliest wannabe porn star in history!
The beheaded Americans would glady trade places with what alleged abuse was committed here.. men I know, like to play master/slave in the bedroom...and it is a game to play with womens undies..
Yup, but Teddy "Swimmer" Kennedy remembers..... he had to mark the one year 'anniversary' of the revelations with a so-called "major speech" on the topic! With all of the far more significant anniversaries that could be remembered, he had to pick this one as an excuse to provide a deranged rant against the Bush administration....
In other words, the MSM is backing off because their exploitation of this didn't help Kerry win and they realized that the vast majority of the American population thinks it's a bunch of trumped-up crap. Her worst crime was that she embarrassed the military.
It's one thing to be doing something against regs. It's quite another to be smiling into a camera while doing it. What a moron.
The alphabet networks should talk to the surviving family members of Kuwaitis who were torture-murdered during Saddam's 1990-1991 invasion of Kuwait. That would put this whole Abu Gharaib "abuse" scandal into perspective.
She should get the maximum penalty for stupidity!!!
But so, too, will the unfortunate Lynndie England.
There are SCADS of creeps who've committed REAL crimes that get a whole lot less prison time than she will.
Makes me sick.
She's an example of what can happen when the officer in charge doesn't do their job properly.
Oh - The horrors of panties over the head of one's enemy!
Now - How about the 50 indiscriminately chosen dead as of just todays tally chalked up to those angelic(pun) arabs.
How do you say "scum ball P.O.S." in arabic?
No they should be forced to watch this video of Saddam's systematic torture.
http://terrorism.thatlumox.com/Videos/fl_video%5B1%5D.htm
Too bad she's pleading guilty to anything! There was no torture here........just humiliation. Bet anyone a dollar if these so-called "tortured" prisoners had a chance, they'd kill every guard (or any American) in a New York minute....with no mercy.
I wonder who's taking care of her baby? Gotta feel sorry for the kid.
There is a drunk driver in one of the threads on today who got for years after a passenger (his brother in law) died in a car crash. We have our prorities just right /sarcasn
Thanks, that's a very useful link!!
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