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  • Split Verdict for Officer at Abu Ghraib (LtCol Jordan acquitted of 3 counts)

    08/28/2007 4:44:16 PM PDT · by RDTF · 9 replies · 544+ views
    Forbes.com ^ | August 28, 2007 | DAVID DISHNEAU
    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,...