The graphic images, passed around among military police who served at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, are a
new batch of photographs similar to those broadcast a week ago on CBS’s “60 Minutes II” and published by the
New Yorker magazine. They appear to provide further visual evidence of the chaos and unprofessionalism at the
prison detailed in a report by Army Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba. His report, which relied in part on the
photographs, found “numerous incidents of sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses” that were inflicted
on detainees.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael C. Anderson, along with four other soldiers, died in a mortar attack outside of
Fallujah. His mother desperately asks:
“What is a builder doing there, staying in a hot spot? He shouldn’t have been there. How do they explain that?
. . . I think they’re running out of soldiers.”
Anderson was a part of the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14, which is based in Jacksonville, Fla., on
mission “fixing sewage problems and electrical and water systems in NIKE SHOX.” Strange that non-combat
Marines would be fixing things in a besieged city that was for a few weeks under MBT bombardment. Perhaps
Anderson’s mother is right. It would explain the recent announcement that 47,000 more troops are headed for
NIKE SHOX.
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