Posted on 08/28/2007 4:44:16 PM PDT by RDTF
FORT MEADE, Md. - A military court Tuesday acquitted an Army officer of failing to control U.S. soldiers who abused detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, but it found him guilty of disobeying an order not to discuss the abuse investigation.
Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan was the only officer and the last of 12 defendants to go to trial in the 2003 Abu Ghraib scandal, which embarrassed the Pentagon and shocked the Muslim world.
The allegations at the U.S.-run prison came to light with the release of pictures of U.S. soldiers smiling while detainees, some of them naked, were held on leashes or in painful and humiliating positions at the prison. Jordan, 51, never appeared in the inflammatory photos, but he was accused of fostering a climate conducive to abuse.
The jury of nine colonels and one brigadier general deliberate for about seven hours before issuing its verdicts Tuesday.
It acquitted Jordan of three counts: cruelty and maltreatment for subjecting detainees to forced nudity and intimidation by dogs; dereliction of a duty to properly train and supervise soldiers in humane interrogation rules; and failing to obey a lawful general order by ordering dogs used for interrogations without higher approval.
The jury found him guilty of one: disobeying a general's order not to talk to others about the investigation into the abuse.
Jordan, a reservist from Fredericksburg, Va., stood at attention facing the jury as the panel president, a brigadier general, read the verdict.
He faces a maximum sentence of five years.
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I notice the MSM has refused to cover these trials.
They are afraid the public will find out that their reporting of the incident, did not match the facts at all.
The MSM reported (for years) that it was "torture." It was abuse, not torture.
They cannot let the public find that out.
I hope he sues big time; although, it will be out of our tax money to pay him off.
Our tax money is being spent for worse things.
Thank you George.
Bet you missed this on the news.
Thanks for the ping
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Found guilty of talking about his being railroaded was a crime.
I suprised they didn’t try to hit him with conduct unbecoming. They always seem to get troops with that one.
He should be sentenced to having to wear a pair of women’s panties on his head!
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