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Friday, June 25, 2004
"FEMALE SOLDIER AWAITS COURT MARTIAL RULING"
A female soldier shown in some of the abuse photographs at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib jail is due to hear if she will face a court martial.
Specialist Sabrina Harman was photographed grinning beside a dead prisoner in one of the images that sparked worldwide outrage over abuse by US soldiers at the prison.
She is one of seven US soldiers charged in connection with the atrocities. Specialist Jeremy Sivits, has already been sentenced to a year's imprisonment.
Harman is charged with conspiracy to maltreat subordinates, dereliction of duty, maltreating subordinates, making a false official statement, assault, desecration of a human corpse and an indecent act.
Specialist Israel Rivera, a military intelligence analyst, also testified that in another incident, Harman shouted "homosexual slurs" at three naked detainees, and ordered them to crawl along the ground.
"I knew...this was something not condoned, something illegal," he said, adding the detainees were "very, very frightened" and "screaming, shouting, crying, begging".
