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Lee:
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was, after all, a crime reporter
among my other duties and pret-
ty good at sniffing out suspi-
cious behavior.
A hand atop the living room’s
still-warm television told the
tale. I switched on the TV and
found it set on a channel show-
ing cartoons. Cameron was
caught.
I walked into the kitchen
where he was industriously
doing homework as said, “you
know, Cameron, if someone was
trying to look as if he were just
coming back from the bathroom
and not doing something he
shouldn’t, it would probably be
better if he just switched off the
TV and strolled back to the
kitchen. Strolling looks a lots
less suspicious than running,
don’t you think?”
“Yes, Miss Jane,” he said and
from then on, when I came
home in the afternoon when
Cam should have been doing
homework, he was either sitting
at the table when I came in the
door or just casually walking in
from the direction of the living
room.
He learned fast and now he is
about to graduate from high
school and has been accepted to
a very good university.
Yeah, that makes me feel pret-
ty old.
E-mails sent to Jane Howard
Lee at bubbalee@flash.net
should reference column in the
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| KARBALA, Iraq — The U.S.
I military on Wednesday accused
I fighters loyal to a rebel cleric of
I firing on American forces from
J one of Shia Islam’s holiest
shrines.
Separately, a group linked to
al-Qaida claimed responsibility
for Monday’s car bomb assassi-
nation of the Iraqi Governing
Council president in a statement
posted on a militant Islamic Web
site.
The head of the Monotheism
and Jihad Group is believed to be
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a
Jordanian wanted by the United
States in connection with numer-
ous terrorist attacks. He is sus-
pected of strong links to Osama
bin Laden’s network. It was the
second group to claim responsi-
bility.
One soldier was fatally shot
Tuesday by an attacker in a
cemetery near Muqdadiyah, the
military said. The second soldier
died after an accident at a coali-
tion base near Beiji on the same
day. He was transported to a mil-
itary medical facility, where he
was pronounced dead.
As of Tuesday, May 18, 787
operations in Iraq last year,
according to the Department of
Defense. Of those, 574 died as a
result of hostile action and 213
died of non-hostile causes.
It was unclear whether the lat-
est deaths were included in
Tuesday’s total.
In Karbala, the militia of cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr was operating
from the Imam Hussein shrine in
the center of Karbala, said Cpt.
Noel Gorospe, spokesman for
the U.S. Army’s 1st Armored
Division.
The city south of Baghdad has
been the scene of heavy fighting
since al-Sadr launched an upris-
ing against the U.S.-led coalition
last month.
“They use mainly the win-
dows of the second floor of the
shrine,” to fire at troops, Gorospe
said at Camp Lima, a coalition
base on the outskirts of Karbala.
Insurgents were using small
arms, mortars and rocket-pro-
pelled grenades, and their use of
the shrine wtis more noticeable in
the past three days, he said.
American troops and militia-
men fought Wednesday near a
militia checkpoint 100 yards
from another holy site in
Karbala, the Imam Abbas shrine,
witnesses said.
The U.S. military confirmed
there was fighting Wednesday,
but did not say where.
The troops who detained and
be in charge and1 interrogated prisoners at Abu
what their names are, and where Ghraib and their entire chain of
command are being investigat-
ed, Sanchez said. “And that
includes me,” he told senators.
At the same hearing, Sen.
com-
mittee’s chairman, disclosed
once political control is handed “contributed to systemic fail-
back to the Iraqis on June 30 ures” which in turn may have
because the insurgency is likely created conditions for abuse to
to grow even more violent then. p|ace, he said.
_ Summoned to testify before Appearing with Abizaid,
at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Sivits, who pleaded guilty to four abuse
chaiges, broke down in tears as he expressed tials of three others from this Reserve unit, the
remorse for taking pictures of naked Iraqi pris- 372nd Military Police Company, based in
oners being humiliated. “I’d like to apologize to Cresaptown, Md. rhe three appeared for arraign-
the Iraqi people and those detainees,” he said in ment Wednesday in the same courtroom as
his statement. “I should have protected those Sivits. at the Baghdad Convention Center in the
detainees, not taken the photos.” heavily guarded Green Zone. Their next hearing
During the hearing, Sivits, 24, told the court he is June 21.
The National Guard's 386th ___..........
Engineer Battalion, which includes a combat engineering support to armor,
unit in Baytown, will be deployed in infantry and combat service units. The
Iraq on June 26. 386th is equipped with various
National Guard officials could not wheeled and track vehicles, to include
give an immediate estimate on the armored personnel carriers, armored
number of Baytonians deployed. The vehicle launch bridges, bulldozers,
386th has about 330 soldiers. It is cargo trucks and HMMWVs. The
headquartered in Corpus Christi and 386th duties will include breaching
The Associated Press saw one U.S. soldier punch an Iraqi in the head
and other guards stomp on the hands and feet of
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Spc. Jeremy C. Sivits detainees. He also recounted that prisoners were
received the maximum penalty Wednesday — strjpped and forced to form a human pyramid,
one year in prison, reduction in rank and a bad testimony and sentencing mark a begin-
conduct discharge — in the first court-martial njng jn efforts fjnd justice in the Abu Ghraib
stemming from mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners a[,usc scandal, a process expected to stretch to
the highest ranks of the U.S. military.
Next, Sivits will likely testify at the court-mar-
military police and other sup-
port troops.
As chief of the Central
Command running the war,
Abizaid said he takes responsi-
bility for the abuses at Abu
Ghraib prison. Overcrowding in
135,000 troops already in Iraq the ce|]s of notorious jail
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enemy obstacles, obstacle emplace- diets) fantilies have all been provided where they served for nearly a year
ment, creating protection for soldiers, with information to help them during during the Berlin crisis. The 386th
and basic engineering support such as deployment and now the soldiers are was originally the 170th Engineer
limited construction and road work. looking forward to their post training Combat Battalion. The 170th was
Before their deployment overseas at Camp Shelby. Overall, 1 think they activated by the United States Army
the unit will train for about two are confident in their abilities and from 25 Junel943 and deactivated 31
months at Camp Shelby in know that they are up to the task.” March 1946. The organization was
Mississippi.
“The soldier's attitudes are very
good,” said LTC James Junot, 386th since 1961. In 1961 the 386th was
Battalion commander. “Their (sol- called to active duty at Fort Polk, La, on July 2, 1946.
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Summoned to testify before Appearing with Abizaid, Lt.
Congress on prisoner abuse, Gen Ricardo Sanchez told the
Gen. John Abizaid also Senate Armed Services
addressed broader issues, mak- Committee that military person-
ing clear that he believes time is ne| who received reprimands or
running short to make a viable similar sanctions for their roles
handover of sovereignty to the jn the abuse may face criminal
Iraqis on June 30. charges, too. Sanchez is the
Abizaid told senators the June most senior U.S. commander
30 date “is achievable, but it based in Iraq.
needs to emerge soon as to who The troops who detained and
is going to
they’re going to be and what
they’re going to do.”
A U.N. envoy, working close-
ly with the Bush administration,
is expected to name the interim John Warner, R-Va., the
government, but political fac-
tions inside Iraq are jockeying that the Pentagon had found
over who should be on it. another disk containing photos
President Bush said Wednesday of abuse at Abu Ghraib. No
that he expects the top spots to details about those photos were
be filled in two weeks. disclosed.
Abizaid, in his testimony, con- Speaking in somber tones as
ceded that he may have underes- he assessed the situation in Iraq, Associated Press photo/Hadi Mizban U.S. service members have died
timated the strength of the Iraqi Abizaid offered a^ sometimes ar^eD MILITIAMEN, loyal to radical Shiite .cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr, chant anti-U.S. slogans during a since the beginning of military
are hampered by shortages of lies ahead in stabilizing Iraq.
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