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She shouldn’t spend a day in jail. Pfc. Lynndie England. Somebody should give her a stern talking to, dock her a couple of week’s pay and kick her out of the Army. And then she should go back to her trailer in West Virginia and disappear into the woodwork. But no way should she go to jail. You know who she is. She’s the ugly female soldier holding the leash, the idiot with the cigarette pointing to the family jewels of some naked Iraqis. They had her in court yesterday and had her plead guilty to seven counts of nonsense....

Lynndie England Pleads Guilty May 2, 2005 11:49 am US/Eastern FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) Pfc. Lynndie England, who appeared in some of the most graphic photographs depicting physical mistreatment and sexual humiliation of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, pleaded guilty Monday to charges arising from her role in the abuse scandal. The 22-year-old Army reservist entered her pleas to two counts of conspiracy to maltreat prisoners, four counts of maltreating prisoners and one count of committing an indecent act. In exchange, prosecutors agreed to drop another count of committing an indecent act and one count of dereliction of duty....

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....

The court-martial of Army Private Lynndie England will be transferred from Fort Bragg to Fort Hood, military officials said Friday. England is a 22-year-old Army Reservist from Fort Ashby, W. Va. who is charged with 19 counts of abuse and indecent acts in the alleged abuse of prisoners at Baghdad’s infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Her attorneys argue that she and other soldiers in her Maryland-based 372nd Military Police Company were acting on orders to soften prisoners up for interrogations by keeping them nude and humiliating them. She is one of seven members of the unit charged in the alleged abuse....

19 Feb 2005 00:29:16 GMT FORT HOOD, Texas, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Military prosecutors have filed new charges that greatly reduce the amount of jail time facing U.S. Army reservist Lynndie England if she is convicted in the abuse scandal at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. A spokesman at Fort Hood in central Texas where England is to be court martialed said on Friday the new charges, nine in all ranging from cruelty to committing indecent acts, would expose her to a maximum of 16 years in prison. They were filed last week, but not made public. Previously, she faced 19...

FORT BRAGG, NC -- Lawyers for Pfc. Lynndie England moved Wednesday to throw out statements she made when first questioned about Iraqi prisoner abuse, including that reservists were just "joking around, having some fun." The motion was one of five taken up by military judge Col. Stephen Henley in a hearing in advance of England's Jan. 18 court-martial on abuse charges stemming from photos of her pointing and smiling at naked detainees at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison. Paul Arthur, an Army special investigator, testified that England was aware of her rights, including to have a lawyer present, when she was...

While leftist critics entertained high hopes of deeply wounding the Bush administration over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, they will now have to shelve their hopes for another day. Testimony from the MPs involved in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, including key figure Lynndie England, indicates that no higher officials were involved; a fact the independent commission investigating the scandal confirmed in Washington last week. Naturally, the left and those who hate America have never considered the possibility that Bush administration officials did not orchestrate the abuse and that the Abu Ghraib MPs acted alone. To do so would blunt...

...When the news of those pictures became public in April, Pfc. England had an explanation: She had been following orders from higher-ups.... Who the higher-ups were who had approved the group's treatment of prisoners she could not say. This was a decidedly different explanation from the one she initially gave, according to the Army investigator who first confronted her with the photographs. Months before those were made public, investigator Paul Arthur testified at the recent Article 32 hearing, Pfc. England had told him that the photos [was] just some fooling around while on the night shift. There was no mention...

The hearing of US Army Private Lynndie England, accused of abusing Iraqi detainees, began here Tuesday with the pregnant young soldier facing a possible court-martial and a maximum sentence of 38 years in a military jail. England, 21, arrived at the hearing at Fort Bragg wearing camouflage military dress, flanked by her legal team and her mother, Terrie. She was escorted into the proceeding by several military policemen amid tight security. "The total maximum punishment that PFC (Private First Class) England potentially could receive if she is convicted of all charges and specifications is a dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all...

Published: Jul 28, 2004 Web site solicits funds to pay for Lynndie England defenseBy ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer RALEIGH, N.C. -- A Web site is soliciting funds for the defense of Pfc. Lynndie England, accused by the Army of abusing prisoners in Iraq, one of her lawyers said Wednesday.England, 21, of Fort Ashby, W.Va., faces an investigative hearing next week at Fort Bragg, where she is assigned. The West Virginia reservist is at the center of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse case. England is one of six soldiers charged in the scandal. One, Spc. Jeremy C. Sivits, has already...

RALEIGH - An Army private charged with prisoner abuse after pictures surfaced of her with naked Iraqi detainees has been charged again, this time for participating in explicit pictures not involving prisoners. Pfc. Lynndie England was charged late Thursday with one count of violating a general order "that prohibits the creation and possession of sexually explicit photographs" and four counts of indecent acts, according to a statement released Friday by Fort Bragg. Pfc. England is due in military court at the base beginning Monday for a hearing on whether she should face a military trial in the case. Spokesman Maj....

A hearing on procedural issues is set later today for Army Private Lynndie England, who's accused of prisoner abuse in Iraq. England is accused of assault and taking and posing in photographs with naked prisoners. Today's hearing was supposed to determine whether she should face a military trial, but "The Fayetteville Observer" reports that the session will focus on England's request for a new military lawyer. Last week, officials annoA hearing on procedural issues is set later today for Army Private Lynndie England, who's accused of prisoner abuse in Iraq. England is accused of assault and taking and posing in...

Woman in Abu Ghraib Case Appears in Court By ESTES THOMPSON ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) - Pfc. Lynndie England, the Army reservist at the center of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse case, was read her rights in military court Monday and given a date of Aug. 3 for a hearing on whether she is to face a court-martial. England appeared in court for the five-minute hearing, held before Col. Denise Arn, who is the judge - or "investigating officer," in military parlance - presiding over her case. Dressed in a jungle-green camouflage Army uniform and visibly pregnant, England...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Some Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib said they were abused by troops from Poland and other coalition countries, according to copies of statements to Army investigators obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The witness statements also include new and more detailed allegations of abuse by military intelligence soldiers, including a civilian interpreter's accusation that an Army interrogator forced a prisoner to walk naked through a cellblock.One soldier has been convicted and six others are facing military charges for allegedly abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib last fall. All are enlisted military police who worked as guards.Most of the...

What do we offer the world? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 19, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern "So, how do we advance the cause of female emancipation in the Muslim world?" asks Richard Perle in "An End to Evil." He replies, "We need to remind the women of Islam ceaselessly: Our enemies are the same as theirs; our victory will be theirs as well." Well, the neoconservative cause "of female emancipation in the Muslim world" was probably set back a bit by the photo shoot of Pfc. Lynndie England and the "Girls Gone Wild" of Abu Ghraib prison. Indeed, the filmed orgies among...

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry! On Thursday, May 6, Pres. Bush publicly apologized to Jordan’s King Abdullah II for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. I wasn’t aware that Abdullah was the king of Iraq. Apparently, when America screws up, our leader must apologize to any and every Moslem in the world, to people who exuberantly support torture, as long as it is carried out by Moslems. I must have missed King Abdullah II’s apology for the butchering of four American civilians in Falluja. King Abdullah is a “moderate, pro-U.S.” Arab, which means that his statements in support of genocidal...

In a sworn statement to investigators, Pfc. Lynndie England explained the mystery of why soldiers at Abu Ghraib took pictures of detainees masturbating and piled naked with plastic sandbags over their heads by saying, "We thought it looked funny so pictures were taken." [snip] "Picture 000015 was basically us fooling around," she said, pointing to a photograph of detainees stacked naked in different positions in 1A, the area of the prison where the soldiers now charged with abuse worked. "She wanted a picture because she wrote `I'm a rapist' on one of the detainees," Private England explained, pointing to two...

Private First Class Lynndie England's contention that she was ordered to abuse Iraqi detainees, thus justifying her actions, simply won't wash. England and some of her fellow Army Reserve comrades are facing court martial for mistreating captured Iraqi soldiers at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison compound where Saddam Hussein's henchmen once mercilessly tortured and killed inmates. Jessica Klinestiver, England's sister has stated that she is "outraged" because undue blame has been heaped upon England. "That's not like my sister to do anything like that at all," she said. But the images tell a different story. Perhaps England was ordered to...

<p>May 14, 2004 -- Iraq's feared Abu Ghraib jail was one big sex romp - sometimes by candlelight with an audience watching, U.S. troops said yesterday. Sex and alcohol were commonplace, and soldiers frequently set up candlelit rooms for voyeuristic sex shows, said a soldier who served at the notorious prison.</p>

She's got it all. The perky grin. The cheerleader's exuberance. The diminutive figure. The Dorothy Hamill hair. What might have been a picture of America's sweetheart has become instead a portrait of America's sadist. The world knows Lynndie England, the dark-haired Army private who appears in pictures of sexual humiliation at the Abu Ghraib prison, because she has become the scandal's featured model. The Iraqi prisoner abuse that has shocked the national conscience delivers an unfamiliar jolt: The face of this scandal is female. Three of the seven members of a military police unit who've been charged in the abuse...