Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Abu Ghraib ringleader weds 'other woman' he seduced during affair with Lynndie
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1612560,00.html
IF a television movie of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal is ever made, the grotesque pictures of naked Iraqi detainees stacked in a human pyramid may be merely the backdrop to a saga of obsession, infidelity and betrayal, writes Sarah Baxter.
Charles Graner, a former corporal who is serving a 10-year sentence for his role as the ringleader of a sadistic group of army reservists, recently married a fellow guard but is not allowed to see his bride because of her complicity in the abuse of inmates at Abu Ghraib.
The new wife is not Private Lynndie England, who appeared in some of the worst photographs and is mother of his seven-month-old son, but former specialist Megan Ambuhl.
Inside Abu Ghraib, the thuggish Graner, 36, was quite a catch. His ex-wife Staci Morris, said: “There were so many men there and so few women, and he had two. What does that tell you?” Graner kept news of his wedding to Ambuhl secret. England found out a few days before her court martial opened this month. She told the courtroom artist who was sketching her former lover: “Don’t forget the horns and the goatee.”
It seems that, more and more, the barrage of information that we get presented with every day means that we, by neccesity, move on and forget about atrocities, calamities and disasters at an increasingly absurd rate.
Katrina who?
IF a television movie of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal is ever made, the grotesque pictures of naked Iraqi detainees stacked in a human pyramid may be merely the backdrop to a saga of obsession, infidelity and betrayal, writes Sarah Baxter.
Charles Graner, a former corporal who is serving a 10-year sentence for his role as the ringleader of a sadistic group of army reservists, recently married a fellow guard but is not allowed to see his bride because of her complicity in the abuse of inmates at Abu Ghraib.
The new wife is not Private Lynndie England, who appeared in some of the worst photographs and is mother of his seven-month-old son, but former specialist Megan Ambuhl.
Inside Abu Ghraib, the thuggish Graner, 36, was quite a catch. His ex-wife Staci Morris, said: “There were so many men there and so few women, and he had two. What does that tell you?” Graner kept news of his wedding to Ambuhl secret. England found out a few days before her court martial opened this month. She told the courtroom artist who was sketching her former lover: “Don’t forget the horns and the goatee.”
It seems that, more and more, the barrage of information that we get presented with every day means that we, by neccesity, move on and forget about atrocities, calamities and disasters at an increasingly absurd rate.
Katrina who?
// posted by werner @ 4:35:00 pm 
