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Interrogators testily they saw prisoner abuse her own superiors, she went to the guards themselves and accepted that it was being “taken care of.” Although subordinates testified they knew of the abuse, Capt. Carolyn Wood, the top intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib, testified that she was shocked when photos of guards abusing prisoners sur faced. “Words can’t describe my reac tion,” Wood said. “I was shocked. I was very disappointed. I was out raged.” Wood said her interrogators asked several times a week to de viate from standard procedures at the prison, but nothing on the scale of what was shown in the photos: piling naked Iraqi de tainees in pyramids, posing them in sexual positions and, in a noto rious shot of England, tethering one on a leash. Wood said her people had no control over members of England’s unit. She posted signs around the office reminding in terrogators that “at no time will detainees be maliciously humili ated.” “The cage is completely run by the MPs,” she said. “We as MI merely run a parallel mission.” The hearing will determine if England, a 21-year-old reservist from Fort Ashby, W.Va., faces a court-martial on 13 counts of abusing detainees and six counts stemming from possession of sex ually explicit photos. If convict ed, she could get up to 38 years in prison. England’s defense team, which planned to call witnesses Friday, has claimed she and other re servists were ordered by intelli gence officers to stage the photos to “soften up” prisoners for inter rogations. She is among seven sol diers from the Maryland-based 372nd Military Police Company PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pfc. Lynndie England waits to enter a car outside the Staff Judge Advocate Building at Fort Bragg, N.C., at the end of the third day of her Article 32 hearing. who have been charged in the case. Other witnesses have testified that England, who worked days as a clerk in an office part of the prison, would venture to the se cure “hard site” in the middle of the night for trysts with her boyfriend, Cpl. Charles A. Graner Jr., who worked there as a guard. England is now seven months pregnant with Graner’s child. Special Agent Tyler Pieron tes tified Thursday that Spc. Joseph Darby, the member of England’s unit who turned over a computer disk with the photos in January, indicated “that Cpl. Graner was the ringleader in the abuse.... When he wasn’t there, it didn’t happen as much.” Pieron, of the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division, said Darby blew the whistle because “he was, quite frankly, very afraid for the detainees’ lives.” As she has throughout the three days of hearings, the round faced, mop-topped England has shown no expression, in contrast to the smiles and winks she flashed in the prison pho tographs. Wearing a maternity version of the Army’s green cam ouflage uniform, she munched potato chips during a break and supported her lower back with a Police find chilling 4 ‘to-do’ list written on suspect’s arm BY MARK NIESSE TUB ASSOCIATED I'liKSS FAYETTEVILLE, GA. - Police said Thursday they found a chill ing “to do” list scrawled on the arm of a 15-year-old girl arrest ed in the stabbing deaths of her grandparents: kill, keys, money, jewelry. Holly Harvey allegedly re cruited her 16-year-old lesbian lover to help kill Carl and Sarah Collier in their suburban Atlanta home Monday, said Lt. Col. Bruce Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department. He said the elderly couple, with whom Harvey lived, had or dered her to stop seeing the girl, Sandy Ketchum, and to stop us ing drugs. “I believe the evidence at trial will be that the motive was to gain freedom and be able to stay together forever,” he said. When the girls were arrested Tuesday at a beach house on the Georgia coast, police found the to-do list written in ink on Harvey’s arm along with three bloody knives and the girls’ bloodstained clothes. Police said the girls had jew elry in a bag, but do not believe there was cash in the couple’s home. The girls fled in the grand parents’ truck. The girls are being held at separate youth detention cen ters. They made their first court appearances Thursday. The two will be tried as adults on charges including murder and armed robbery. Police described Harvey as “stone cold” and a “manipula tor” who allegedly persuaded Ketchum to sneak into the Colliers’ home Sunday and hide under a bed with a knife until the grandparents, both in their 70s, were lured into the bedroom and attacked. Both were stabbed more than 15 times. The girls allegedly smoked marijuana just before the slay ings. Jordan said they also had | attempted to get guns by calling friends they had met during' their times in juvenile detention centers. Investigators said they had found a poem Harvey had writ ten in which she described how depressed she had been and that she cried herself to sleep. The poem contained the line, “All I want to do is kill.” “She wished for everyone to suffer the way she suffered,” Jordan said. When the girls were arrested at the home of two boys they’d met on Tybee Island, Harvey laughed at the more than 25 ar resting officers. “She was callous and cocky. She is the coldest and most heartless individual I’ve ever in terviewed. It almost made her giddy to know we had brought that many people to arrest her,” Jordan said. He said Harvey has not coop erated with investigators but Ketchum has. Jordan said the older girl strictly “was in it for the love.” On Thursday, the girls were escorted into court together, wearing bulletproof vests with their hands cuffed in front of them. Both sniffled as the charges were read. Harvey’s world “has been turned upside down. She still ap pears to be in shock,” said Judy Chidester, her court-appointed lawyer. “She’s acting like a scared 15-year-old, which is ex actly what she is.” " I BY ALLEN G. BREED ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Military interrogators testified Thursday that they saw reservist guards abusing detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, but failed to prop erly report the incidents up the Chain of command. 'in a hearing to determine whether Pfc. Lynndie England should be court-martialed in the abuse case, interrogators said they saw guards putting naked prison ers in sexual poses, and torturing them by forcing them to drag then genitals on the ground and keep ing them unclothed in their cells 24 hours a day. < While several said they told fel low interrogators and questioned the behavior to the guards them selves, they failed to tell their su periors. : The third day of prosecution testimony in the Article 32 hear ing scarcely mentioned England at all. Prosecutors appeared to be trying to explain how a scandal of worldwide impact could have unfolded while being carried out by what the government has char acterized as a rogue band of guards. Intelligence analyst Spc. Hannah Schlegel testified that When she first arrived at the prison, she found military police reservists kept some prisoners naked around the clock. She said she was told there were not enough jumpsuits to go around, but that the guards felt nudity helped them maintain dominance Over the prisoners. ' Schlegel said she and other in telligence officers asked for sheets to cover prisoners while they in terrogated them because “we didn’t like it at all.” But instead of reporting what was happening to YOU GO TO SCHOOL TO LEARN and you come home to... \ STERLING UNIVERSITY i i l Community Features: / - Roommate matching program - Individual leasing - 24 Hour Emergency Maintenance - State of the art computer center - Huge fitness center - FREE shuttle to USC campus Apartment Features: - High Speed Ethernet included - W/D in every apartment - Private bedrooms - Water/Sewer included - Fully furnished (803) 739 - 0899 An SUH® Community, SUH® is a trademark of SUH®, INC. 'hi ii- i.iii-W --i a. ii. ... ■■ 215 Spencer Place Cayce, SC 29033 www. sterlinghousing, com __ ■■■■■■■<.- 4