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US Releases Abu Ghraib Ringleader
The convicted ringleader of the US abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq has been released from a US military prison.
Charles Graner, 42, was released Sunday from the US Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, after serving 6 and a half years of his 10-year sentence. He will be under the supervision of a probation officer until December 25, 2014.
The US army didn't release any information about Graner's whereabouts or his destination after he was released.
Graner was a US army corporal when he and six other members of the Maryland-based 372nd Military Police Company were convicted in 2004 of abusing people held in the Iraqi prison.
The strongest evidence was photographs of grinning US soldiers posing beside naked detainees stacked in a pyramid or held on a leash.
The exposure of the pictures damaged US international relations and provoked debate about whether the harsh interrogation techniques approved by the Pentagon amounted to torture.
He maintained that the actions were all part of a plan directed by US military intelligence to soften up the Iraqi prisoners for interrogation and extract information.
Iraqi human rights activist Hana Adwar said the easy release of a US soldier who "committed a war crime would be met with outrage in Iraq."
After his conviction, Graner married another member of his unit, former specialist Megan Ambuhl. She was discharged from the army after pleading guilty to dereliction of duty for failing to prevent or report the maltreatment of the detainees.
Source : News Agencies
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