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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, faulted by some for leadership failures in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, has been cleared by the Army of all allegations of wrongdoing and will not be punished, officials said. Three officers who were among Sanchez's top deputies during the period of the prisoner abuse in the fall of 2003 also have been cleared. An Army Reserve one-star general has been reprimanded, and the outcome of seven other senior Army officer cases could not be learned Friday. Sanchez, who became the senior U.S. commander in Iraq in June 2003, two months after...

Former commander of US troops in Iraq Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez has been cleared over abuses at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq. A new inquiry found no evidence of wrongdoing by Gen Sanchez and three of his top aides, US officials say. The US Army inspector general's report says only Brig Gen Janis Karpinski, commander at the jail, has been found guilty and reprimanded over the abuse. Pictures of Iraqi inmates abused by US soldiers caused an outcry last year. Five US soldiers have been convicted. The Pentagon has held nine major inquiries into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal,...

The Associated Press made much of 3 top (male) generals being cleared in the Abu Ghraib scandal,but declined to identify the "woman officer" who was reprimanded.Reuters was less PC. Her name is Janis Karpinski,the Bigadier General who commanded the reservists at the prison-and who visited the prison exactly once: for a photo op. http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050423/2005-04-23T022527Z_01_N22405954_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-IRAQ-USA-SANCHEZ-DC.html

HAMBURG, Germany, Aug. 10 — A German court today began a retrial of Mounir el-Motassadeq, the only person convicted of involvement in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with the disclosure that the United States will for the first time share evidence about the plot. Mr. Motassadeq's conviction was thrown out in March by an appeals court, which said that critical evidence had been withheld by American authorities. After having been sentenced to 15 years in prison, Mr. Motassadeq was freed in April. The decision by the United States to offer limited cooperation to the Germans introduces a combustible element to...

A key figure in the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse scandal has given Army investigators a lengthy sworn statement accusing others of misconduct at the Iraq prison. The statement from Pvt. Charles Graner, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., comes as the Army may file more charges in the case against personnel who supervised military police officers such as Pvt. Graner. He had first refused to talk, but later agreed under a grant of immunity. At his court-martial, prosecutors portrayed Pvt. Graner as the ringleader in a group of Reserve MPs who abused and humiliated detainees...

BOGOTA, Colombia - In a new series of paintings by famed Colombian artist Fernando Botero, Iraqi detainees are shown being beaten by American prison guards, made to wear women's lingerie and suffering other abuse. Botero has taken his sharpest departure yet from his normally placid scenes of chubby people and other still life paintings and sculptures, which have hung in such places as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Mo. He told The Associated Press that he became so upset...

Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, the reporter/producer team behind the discredited Bush National Guard hit job, won a prestigious Peabody Award last Thursday for their Abu Ghraib story which aired earlier last year on 60 Minutes II. The University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication issues the awards every year and Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards, insisted to the New York Times: "It was one of the most important stories of the year and was one of the crucial components of the ongoing conflict in Iraq." Mapes, who was fired by CBS over the Bush...

When the George Foster Peabody Awards for excellence in electronic media were announced yesterday, they cited a program that was later accused of basing a report on fake documents, "60 Minutes II" - and a program that gleefully engages in the production of fake news, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." The Peabody given to the Wednesday edition of "60 Minutes" honored an exclusive story, produced by Mary Mapes and reported by Dan Rather, about the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Several months after that journalistic coup, Ms. Mapes was fired and Mr. Rather retired as anchor of...

...Today, government lawyers will ask a federal appeals court in Washington to reverse a November ruling that found the Geneva Convention protects prisoners held at Guantanamo and ordered an immediate halt to military commission proceedings against detainees because they didn't comply with the treaty.... The records make it clear that after World War II, U.S. military prosecutors and judges set out to establish a precedent barring any prisoner mistreatment, by aggressively pursuing and punishing even comparatively small offenses. ..."Extreme brutality or serious injury to the victim is not a necessary element" for guilt.... Historically, such "unlawful" combatants "not only would...

NEWS RELEASE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND 7115 South Boundary Boulevard MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101 Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 April 4, 2005 Release Number: 05-04-05 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE UPDATE: U.S. FORCES REPEL TERRORIST ATTACK ON CAMP ABU GHRAIB BAGHDAD, Iraq – Soldiers and Marines successfully repelled a well-coordinated attack by 40-60 terrorists on Forward Operating Base Abu Ghraib April 2 at about 7 p.m. Abu Ghraib is a detention facility for 3,400 detainees as well as an Iraqi-run prison. In an attempt to gain access to the prison, terrorists launched a simultaneous attack in multiple...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prisoners at Iraq's largest detention facility protested the transfer of several detainees deemed "unruly" by authorities, throwing rocks and setting tents on fire in a disturbance that injured four guards and 12 detainees, the military said Monday. Friday's protest was the first of at least three violent incidents at Iraqi prisons during the past four days, with the latest occurring Monday at the notorious Abu Ghraib facility. A suicide bomber driving a tractor blew himself up outside the prison, wounding four civilians. On Saturday, insurgents attacked Abu Ghraib with rocket-propelled grenades and two car bombs, wounding dozens...

BAGHDAD, April 4 -- Insurgent groups led by foreigners and Iraqis asserted Monday that guerrilla leader Abu Musab Zarqawi's organization was responsible for a major assault on Abu Ghraib prison Saturday that U.S. officers called one of the most sophisticated attacks of the insurgency. [...] Insurgent commanders said Monday that the prison assault represented a shift in tactics and that more attacks on U.S. installations would follow. "These operations will be different from the old ones, the car bombs, the IEDs,'' said Abu Jalal, a top commander in Mohammed's Army, using the common abbreviation for improvised explosive devices, or roadside...

    At Least 20 U.S. Troops Hurt in Mass Iraq Jail Attack Sat Apr 2, 2005 03:58 PM ET By Luke Baker BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Dozens of insurgents mounted a sustained attack on Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad on Saturday, detonating two suicide car bombs and firing rocket- propelled grenades before U.S. troops repelled the assault. At least 20 U.S. soldiers and 12 detainees were wounded in the carefully planned attack, which began at around 1500 GMT and lasted for around an hour, the U.S. military said. "A group of between 40 and 60 insurgents attacked the U.S....

<p>18 US Dead. This is on the top of the front page.</p>

I remember someone (perhaps it was the Washington Times) that ran an article which mentioned how many articles the NYT had about Abu Ghraib. They tallied the number of articles... could anybody help in finding something? Muuuuch appreciated!

WASHINGTON, March 25 - Despite recommendations by Army investigators, commanders have decided not to prosecute 17 American soldiers implicated in the deaths of three prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 and 2004, according to a new accounting released Friday by the Army. Investigators had recommended that all 17 soldiers be charged in the cases, according to the accounting by the Army Criminal Investigation Command. The charges included murder, conspiracy and negligent homicide. While none of the 17 will face any prosecution, one received a letter of reprimand and another was discharged after the investigations. To date, the military has...

Maybe I should be writing a column called, “What’s The Matter With Kansas?” because the state is so rich with material these days. Last week, the police apprehended Kansas native Denis L. Rader as the primary suspect in the B.T.K. slayings, so named because the killer preferred to bind, torture, and kill his victims. Rader was, as most papers have acknowledged, an ordinary man. He worked normal jobs. He and his wife were always present at Church on Sundays. He led his son’s Boy Scout troops. Advertisement If the man is guilty, then this so-called normal life was just a...

What a wonderfully civilized society we have become--or have we? Maybe we have simply become weak, confused, ignorant, and self-loathing--at the expense of right and wrong! A while ago, a brutal savage from Georgia named Nichols raped and sodomized a young lady who once had trust in him. An overly civilized jury was unable to decide his guilt or innocence, after a smooth talking high-minded defense attorney, undoubtedly provided by the public defenders office at tax payer expense, managed to convince half of the jurors that he might have been innocent, the trial ending in a hung jury. So Nichols...

FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. Army reservist Lynndie England, who was shown holding a naked Iraqi prisoner on a leash in some of the most inflammatory photographs that exposed abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, will be court-martialed on May 3, the U.S. military said on Thursday. Pfc. England, 22, is charged with nine criminal counts including conspiracy, dereliction of duty, maltreatment of detainees and the commission of indecent acts, all said to have been committed against Iraqi detainees in the latter part of 2003 at the prison west of Baghdad. She could face up to 16 1/2 years in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military failed to react to early signs of abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and missed chances to correct lapses that caused abuse but its own policies and top officials were not directly to blame, according to a Pentagon report on Thursday that critics called a "whitewash." The report, by Navy Vice Adm. Albert Church, was billed by the Pentagon as its broadest investigation into the treatment of detainees by the U.S. military, particularly in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo. Human Rights Watch said the report looked "like another whitewash." Amnesty International said that to prevent...