Soldier's anonymous tip-off unleashed Iraq abuse scandal

[happynewyear]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - An anonymous note slipped under a superior's door by a part-time soldier from Pennsylvania triggered the Iraq (news - web sites) prison abuse scandal now engulfing the US military and administration.


The act eventually catapulted the name of Joseph Darby, a 24-year-old reservist in the 372nd Military Police Company, from comfortable obscurity to the floor of Congress where he was praised Friday by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his "honorable" conduct.

Darby's act ironically led to the deluge of Democratic calls for Rumsfeld to resign.

An article in New Yorker magazine this week identified Darby as the soldier who sounded the alarm over the treatment of Iraqi detainees in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.

According to the transcript -- obtained by the magazine -- of a military hearing in April, an army Criminal Investigation agent, Scott Bobeck, said a fellow soldier had given Darby a compact disc with images of naked detainees being mistreated.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040507/ts_alt_afp/us_iraq_prisoners&cid=1506&ncid=1480

Is this the only one that really knew? Hell no ... :grr:

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. The Taquba reports mentions two more troopers who

also stepped forwards, men of consicnece the three of them

And no, the ICRC knew, the human rights organizations knew, etcetera

[maddezmom]

2. Sy Hersh and CBS were the tipping point

kudos to the 3 that brought this to the attention of superior, but it would still be under investigation if CBS and Sy didn't break the news.

[DS1]

3. Joe Darby YES -- Coleen Rowley NO

hmmm, what's wrong with this picture

[Skittles]

4. that is a good point, DS1

I'd like to know that too.