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Titolo: Ex-wife recalls her life with Abu Ghraib abuser (Reuters)

Chicca dedicata ai giustificazionisti della tortura del NG.
Am.
 Ex-wife recalls her life with Abu Ghraib abuser
 
 By Adam Tanner  46 minutes ago
FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - One night, Staci Morris awoke to find then 
husband Charles Graner holding a large knife to her throat and openly 
pondering whether to kill her. In subsequent days, he pretended nothing 
had happened.
"He's like my Hannibal Lecter, he really is. He's the monster in my 
life," said Morris, who has two teenage children from her 10-year 
marriage with Graner, the central figure in the Abu Ghraib abuse of 
Iraqi prisoners.
Graner's unpredictability helped undo a plea bargain deal this week for 
Lynndie England, a fellow reservist and ex-lover with whom he has an 
infant son.
Subpoenaed but not called to testify, Morris described England's 
reaction and her own sometimes bizarre life with Graner in an interview 
after the case collapsed on Wednesday.
"He screws up everything, doesn't he?" a disappointed England told 
Morris about Graner after the judge ruled that trial would have to start 
from scratch in the future.
Pictured in infamous photos holding a leash to a naked prisoner's neck 
attached by Graner, England had pleaded guilty, only to see the judge 
declare a mistrial after Graner's testimony contradicted her plea.
Morris, 34, a nurse who has remarried and lives outside Pittsburgh, said 
the former U.S. prison guard now serving a 10-year sentence would 
proudly e-mail his children photos showing tough treatment of Iraqi 
prisoners.
He would send photos of "these beat up prisoners and blood and talk 
about how cool it was - look what daddy gets to do," she said, adding 
that she did not show them the correspondence.
Graner transmitted pictures of the mentally ill prisoner who was the man 
at the end of England's leash. In one photo the man was covered in his 
feces.
"The whup ass (beatings) ran like a river," Morris quoted Graner as 
saying about the frequent beatings of prisoners. "He had complete 
contempt for prisoners; as far as he was concerned they had no rights," 
she added in summing up his attitude as a U.S. corrections officer in 
Pennsylvania.
Some of the e-mails Graner sent to family and friends were cited in his 
January court-martial.
SEXUAL DEVIANT
Many of the abuse photos which badly damaged America's image abroad 
showed Iraqi men being sexually humiliated, such as being forced to 
masturbate and simulate fellatio. Asked how Graner might have thought to 
stack seven naked Iraqi prisoners into a human pyramid, Morris said: 
"He's obsessed with this kind of stuff."
"He is a sexual deviant," she said. "He was very sexually strange, into 
very strange things."
As their relationship was faltering, Graner twice set up covert video 
surveillance of Morris's bedroom - and then told her about it. On other 
occasions Graner recounted to guests invented tales about their sexual 
exploits, Morris said.
Yet the same man could be unusually charismatic and engaging, prompting 
a military superior at Abu Ghraib to describe Graner as a chameleon. 
Just weeks ago while in prison, Graner married another woman implicated 
in the scandal, Megan Ambuhl. She was also his lover in Iraq and pleaded 
guilty to abuse charges, but was not sentenced to prison.
"He is very charming guy," said Morris, who met him while both worked at 
a Mexican restaurant in 1989.
Later in their relationship, Morris obtained three court protective 
orders to prevent abuses such as when he threatened a knife on his 
sleeping wife.
 Military officials denied requests to talk with Graner during England's 
trial, during which she said he had pressured her into appearing in 
photos. Graner's lawyer declined to comment on his prison conditions and 
a letter sent to Graner at Fort Leavenworth prison has not received a 
response.
 "He said 'I'm just trying to decide. You're not really happy with me. 
Maybe I should end it for you," she recalled.
 When the news of American abuse of Iraqi prisoners spread last year, 
Morris said she knew Graner was involved because of his e-mails, and she 
struggled to tell their children.
 "How do you explain something like that? My daughter, all she wanted to 
know was why," she said. "I had them in counseling again."
 After a military court sentenced their father to 10 out of a maximum 
15-year sentence, the children remained bitter. "They thought he didn't 
get enough time," Morris said.

Chicca dedicata ai giustificazionisti della tortura del NG.
E chi sarebbero, fessacchiotto di un Amalric Bond?
-Stefano

 life," 
Mah, non ne esce il ritratto di uno che aveva bisogno di livelli 
superiori o rodini per fare uello che ha fatto, no?
Palmiro Pangloss
-- 
"But, Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera I'll 
kill you."
Clint Eastwood to Michael Moore
National Board of Review awards dinner at the Tavern on the Green, New 
York, NY 11.01.05

 Palmiro Pangloss
Hai abboccato come un luccio, Uniform Code... 
Bwaha...
Am

 -Stefano
N'artro risponde all'appello...
Am.

 Hai abboccato come un luccio, Uniform Code... 
Amalric, sinceramente, ricordi male.
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 N'artro risponde all'appello...
A quale appello, fessacchiotto di un Amalric Bond?
E non ce lo vuoi proprio dire chi sarebbero? :)
-Stefano


Qualcuno disse una volta che sir Laurence Olivier colla sua maestria, invece
che esaltare, metteva in ombra la grandezza di Shakespeare, con un gratuito
malrispetto alla magnificenza dello scrittore.
Ogni regista che si rispetti sceglie gli attori piu`adatti ad un ruolo,
sicche`potrai capire quella che a mio parere e` la mia conclusione.
Un copione studiato da anni( e di cui se ne discusse in passato anche su
questo NG) ha visto le alte sfere del Homeland Security proporre col
beneplacito pilatesco del Dept. of justice di legalizzare "Extraordinary
Renditions":
<< "Extraordinary rendition" is the euphemism we use for sending terrorism
suspects to countries that practice torture for interrogation. As one
intelligence official described it in the Washington Post...>>
La scelta della England e del Graner come attori principali e ad hoc, fa
parte di tutta la messa in scena di questa tragicommedia dell'horror. Tra le
"files" personali dell'esercito c'erano le figure giuste, colla loro
innegabile psicopatia e deficienza, capaci di oscurare l'opera dei registi.
Giano

colla loro innegabile psicopatia e deficienza,
Certo, certo :)
*pat pat*
-Stefano

 Palmiro Pangloss
Non ricordo male, UCMC
Hint: Gonzales, Rummy, Giorgino
Ma forse intendevate 'modica quantita' di tortura', come Tonino 
Baruchino.
Poi arriva Hannibal, ma come potevate  prevedere?
Eppoi nel tuo chosen field, il diritto internazionale, ognuno fa legge a 
se', no?  Magari e' per questo che ti piace?
(in sordina) rotfl.
Am.

 Baruchino.
Intendevate ... CHI, fessacchiotto di un Amalric Bond? :)
-Stefano

 Magari e' per questo che ti piace?
Non mi piace.
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 Palmiro Pangloss
Che fai? Mo' arruffi tutto  le piume?
Sei tu che hai risposto all'appello, quando s'e' parlato dell'Hannibal 
di Abu Grahib...
Mica t'avevo nominato, o importante signore...
Am.

 -Stefano
Non te preoccupe, mo' fai parte del gruppo, gassificatore.
Ma gia' me facevi parte come apologeta dell'assassinio della bambina di 
Gaza e del ferito di Falluja...
Am.

 Mica t'avevo nominato, 
Mi pare di si, ad un commento hai risposto:
 > Hai abboccato come un luccio, Uniform Code...
Mi resta un dubbio: chi sono questi "giustificazionisti della tortura 
del NG"? E indicameli su! Cosi' li scanso.
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 wrote in message
news:ihyee.1337820$35.49...@news4.tin.it...
#_Ricordati sempre di quell'allevatore cambogiano e la sua mucca cionca...
dev'essere stato lui/lei a definirti un sostenitore degenerato dell' U.
Code...
argh! (disse la mucca...)
Giano

Mica t'avevo nominato, o importante signore...
E questo che ca**o c'entra sai anche spiegarlo? :)
-Stefano

di Gaza e del ferito di Falluja...
Seconda stronzata del giorno, fessacchiotto :)
Dai che magari la prossima volta riesci a trovare qualcosa a sostegno
delle tue stronzate ed eviti l'ennesima figura di merda :)
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Non sapevo che ti conisderassi un importante signore. Ne avevo in mente 
un altro.
Ma certo anche tu, dall'alto dei 77.000 post...
(rivolto all'assemblea) ma sono ancora 77.000?
Am.

Non sapevo che ti conisderassi un importante signore.
Se lo dici tu, caro fessacchiotto di un Amalric Bond, ... :)
-Stefano

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#_In quale delle due ti identifichi meglio? fifty-fifty?
G.


Con oggi, all'incirca 77.502
(settantamila500 suoi, 2 a nome conti roberto)