US judge refuses to dismiss Abu Ghraib guard charges

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N07480640.htm

FORT HOOD, Texas, March 7 (Reuters) - A military judge on Monday rejected a motion to dismiss charges against U.S. Army Spc. Sabrina Harman and said she would go to trial in May for allegedly abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

Harman, a 27-year-old reservist, was one of a unit of Army guards at the Iraqi prison who snapped photos of themselves appearing to abuse naked prisoners in images that angered the United States and drew the world's criticism.

Her attorneys asked military judge Col. James Pohl to dismiss three of five maltreatment charges on grounds that prisoners in some of the photographs were hooded and therefore did not feel the pain and suffering the charges require for prosecution.

Pohl rejected the argument, at least for now.

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[LynnTheDem]

1. "appearing to abuse"...

Watch the American reaction to the first picture of an enemy "appearing to abuse naked AMERICAN prisoners".

I suspect it won't be "appearing to abuse".

[Disturbed]

2. WTF?

The hoods themselves are part of the abuse. This is one of the most demented defense that I have ever read!

[LynnTheDem]

4. I was at first FURIOUS with that bastard for the same reason...but then

I thought well but it's his sworn duty to do whatever he can to defend his (scum bitch evil-doer c-word) client.

And I believe defense lawyers should and must defend their clients to the utmost. Even the scum bitch evil-doer c-word clients.

Totally IGNORANT defense! But when there is no defense...

[GetTheRightVote]

3. Is this country get sick or what ?? What is wrong with the people here ??

:kick:

[countmyvote4real]

5. Blinders.

More than half of the American public seems to have self-hooded themselves in order to deny that our democracy is being raped by the * administration. They can’t see that it’s not only our democracy, but our security, our livelihoods and the position of our country in this world that are being flushed down the toilet.

No thanks to MSM fascist media.

[struggle4progress]

6. kick