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Prison Abuse Whistle-Blower Guarded
From Associated Press

August 18, 2004

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The Army reservist who tipped off investigators to abuse of Iraqi prisoners by fellow soldiers is in protective military custody because of death threats, family members said Tuesday.

Spc. Joseph Darby, 24, received the threats after his role was revealed in May, his sister-in-law, Maxine Carroll, said.

Carroll said in a telephone interview from her home in Windber, Pa., that she didn't know where Darby was. She refused to put a reporter in touch with his wife, Bernadette, who is Carroll's sister.

Darby's mother, Margaret T. Blank of Corriganville, said soldiers moved his and his wife's belongings out of their apartment. She said the Army Reserve's 99th Regional Readiness Command called her weekly to tell her that her son and daughter-in-law were OK, but nothing more.

A spokesman for the command did not return a call from Associated Press.
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