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GOP effort unlikely to hold up in court

An extraordinary eleventh-hour maneuver by Republicans in Congress to intervene in the Terri Schiavo saga had no legal precedent and was unlikely to withstand a court challenge, congressional analysts said...
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Abuse claims multiplying

The Army launched dozens of investigations into detainee abuses across Iraq in the past two years - probing claims of beatings and torture that rivaled the Abu Ghraib prison scandal...
Soldiers surround an Iraqi detainee in this photo obtained by The New Yorker, said to have be taken in December 2003, at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.

Detainee testifies Graner abused him

FORT HOOD, Texas - An Iraqi man imprisoned at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison angrily described a night of lurid abuses in videotaped testimony yesterday, saying he was stripped naked,...
Soldiers surround an Iraqi detainee in this photo obtained by The New Yorker, said to have be taken in December 2003, at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.

Guards say Abu Ghraib abuses went beyond photos

FORT HOOD, Tex. - Two Army Reserve troops at the center of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal faced off in a military courtroom yesterday, with one describing from the...
Soldiers surround an Iraqi detainee in this photo obtained by The New Yorker, said to have be taken in December 2003, at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.

Witness supports soldier’s claims

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- A former Army reservist who served at Abu Ghraib with Maryland's scandal-scarred 372nd Military Police Company testified yesterday that interrogators at the prison encouraged some detainee...
Soldiers surround an Iraqi detainee in this photo obtained by The New Yorker, said to have be taken in December 2003, at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.

Other abuses at prison recounted

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - The Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal unfolded one night in January with an anonymous letter and a computer disk filled with photos, but according to testimony...
Soldiers surround an Iraqi detainee in this photo obtained by The New Yorker, said to have be taken in December 2003, at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq.

MPs of 372nd testify against England

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Well before she emerged as one of the most visible figures in the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, Pfc. Lynndie R. England was reprimanded repeatedly for disobeying...