MARINES ADMIT ABUSE AT SECOND PRISON

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By Rick Rogers
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
May 22, 2004

While world attention was focused on the scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, two Marines were court-martialed May 14 for abusing an Iraqi prisoner with electricity, it was disclosed yesterday.


Andrew J. Sting and Jeremiah J. Trefney, both 19 and privates first class assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment at Camp Lejeune, N.C., pleaded guilty to charges that included cruelty and maltreatment for shocking an unruly prisoner, according to a Marine statement in response to questions from The San Diego Union-Tribune.



The prisoner had been detained at Al Mahmudiya prison.



"The Marines attached wires to a power converter and pressed the live wires against the body of the detainee to create a shock," according to the Marine statement.

read the article here:http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/iraq/20040522-9999-1n22marines1.html

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1. What in the hell are they doing over there?

It sounds like they are trying every nasty method they were ever told that Saddam used and then working on inventing some of their own. Or were they all trained at the same place??? Anyone know if any of Saddams people trained at the SOA before he fell out of favor?