Saturday, August 15, 2009

Slow Saturday Special: Booking a Room at Abu Ghraib

I hate to ask, but when is the movie?

Library of Congress taking reservations?


"Abu Ghraib lecture canceled amid threats" by Associated Press | August 15, 2009

WASHINGTON - A lecture by the woman who became the public face of the Abu Ghraib scandal was canceled yesterday at the Library of Congress after threats caused concerns about staff safety.

This undated photo showed Lynndie England holding a leash connected to a naked detainee at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
This undated photo showed Lynndie England holding a leash connected to a naked detainee at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. (Washington Post/ File)

Former Army reservist Lynndie England had been scheduled to discuss her biography as part of a veterans forum on Capitol Hill. The book by author Gary S. Winkler is called “Tortured: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and the Photographs That Shocked the World.’’

And yet IN THAT VERY HALL the CONGRESS will NOT INVESTIGATE, WILL NOT PROSECUTE, WILL NOT CONVICT Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, et al.


England, now 26, has said she hopes the book will help people understand what she says was a limited role in what happened at the Iraqi prison in 2004. She is appealing her convictions for conspiracy, mistreating detainees, and committing an indecent act. England was one of 11 soldiers found guilty of wrongdoing.

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For more on the abominable atrocity of U.S. torture, go
HERE