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Alberto Gonzales

current Alberto R. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955 in San Antonio, Texas, United States) is a Mexican-American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Texas. He is currently President of the United States George W. Bushs White House Counsel, and is Bushs nominee to replace John Ashcroft as United States Attorney General. Gonzales was raised in Houston, Texas, the second of eight children born to Pablo and Maria Gonzales. His father, who died in 1982, was a construction, and both his parents were children of immigration from Mexico with less than a high-school education themselves...

Joseph Darby

Sergeant Joseph Darby (born 1979/ 1980 80) is a member of the United States military police who first alerted the U.S. military command of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse prisoner abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison, in Abu Ghraib, Iraq. In January 2004, Darby left two compact discs of photographs and an anonymous note on the desk of one of his superiors, triggering an investigation which led to the implication of several soldiers violating the Geneva Convention. Darby had agonised for a month beforehand, but finally decided to blow the whistle on his former..

Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse

{mWf } morbid warning {mWb }> This article deals with one aspect of the Human rights situation in post-Saddam Iraq. In 2004, reports emerged of numerous instances of abuse, torture, and murder of prisoners in the Baghdad Correctional Facility, formerly Abu Ghraib Prison, by U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, beginning in 2003. The abuse gained more attention after U.S...

Ivan Frederick

Ivan Frederick II (born 1966/1967), called Chip Frederick, of Buckingham County, Virginia, is a former Staff Sergeant in the United States Army. He was the highest in rank of the seven United States military police personnel who have been charged with torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib (prison) in Iraq. He was the senior enlisted soldier at the prison from October to December 2003...

Javal Davis

Javal Sean Davis, (born 1977/1978), is a U.S. army reservist, one of several soldiers charged by the U.S. Army in connection with the 2003-2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Baghdad, Iraq during and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Davis, with other soldiers, is accused of allowing and inflicting sexual abuse, physical abuse, and psychological abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war...

Megan Ambuhl

Megan Ambuhl, of Maryland, Virginia, is one of several United States military police officers who have been charged with torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. (See Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse) She began work as a prison guard at Abu Ghraib in October 2003. Reserves after the September 11, 2001 attacks. While enlisted in Army Reserves, Ambuhl majored in biology at Coastal Carolina University and worked as a lab technician in LabCorp in Herndon, Virginia. She lived in Centreville, Virginia...

Jeremy Sivits

Jeremy C. Sivits, (born 1979 or 1980), is a former U.S. Army reservist, one of several soldiers charged and convicted by the U.S. Army in connection with the 2003-2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Baghdad, Iraq during and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Graner, with other soldiers, is accused of allowing and inflicting physical abuse, and psychological abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war. Considered by many to be a torturer and war crime, Graner held the rank of specialist in the 372nd Military Police company during his tour of duty in Iraq...

Sabrina Harman

Sabrina D. Harman, (born 1978), is a former U.S. army reservist, one of several soldiers charged by the U.S. Army in connection with the 2003-2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Baghdad, Iraq during and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Harman, with other soldiers, is accused of allowing and inflicting sexual abuse, physical abuse, and psychological abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war...

Charles Graner

Charles A. Graner, Jr., (born 1968) is a United States Army reservist and one of several soldiers charged by the Army in connection with the 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent U.S.-led occupation of Iraq of Iraq. Graner, with other soldiers, is accused of allowing and inflicting sexual abuse, physical abuse, and psychological abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war in Abu Ghraib, a notorious prison in Baghdad. Due to his acts, Graner has been accused of being a torturer, Sadism and Masochism, and war crime...

Lynndie England

Lynndie Rana England (born November 8, 1982) is a United States army reservist, one of several soldiers charged by the United States Army in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse in a Baghdad prison during the Occupation of Iraq, 2003-2005. England held the rank of Private First Class in the 372nd Military police company during her tour of duty in Iraq...