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Friday, April 23, 2010

S&S - MP unit tarnished by Abu Ghraib scandal returning to Iraq

From my archive of press clippings:

Stars and Stripes

MP unit tarnished by Abu Ghraib scandal returning to Iraq


By David Dishneau, The Associated Press

Online Edition, Saturday, April 10, 2010


HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The Army Reserve unit tarnished by the Abu Ghraib detainee-abuse scandal has been mobilized to return to Iraq in its first deployment since photographs of naked, humiliated prisoners surfaced more than six years ago, the Army said Friday.

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Snippet(s):

"The 372nd Military Police Company of Cresaptown will leave April 29 for one to three months of training at Fort Bliss, Texas, followed by a planned deployment to Iraq, said Sgt. Darius Kirkwood, a spokesman for the 200th Military Police Command at Fort Meade. Few members of the unit remain from when the detainee photographs were taken, due to normal turnover, he said."