Prison Abuse Whistle-Blower Guarded

[realFedUp]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-reservist18aug18,1,2226305.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

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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[tom_paine]

1. You just don't blow the whistle on Der Fuhrer's Will

and expect to get out of it without some harrassment, both long term and short term.

If this was Imperial Amerika 2050, Emperor Goerge P. Caligula would have already had this man killed.

So he's actually lucky, sort of.

[ret5hd]

2. reminds me of the guy that blew the whistle on...

Dyn-Corp's nastly little sex-trade in underage girls in Bosnia. He had to go into hiding for a while too.

[DebinTx]

3. The real amazing part is

that the folks in WVa, England's home state, hail her as a hero.

Too much moonshine still being made in the mountains...

[realFedUp]

4. I just consider England a soldier

who was taking orders.

[Moderator]

5. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=754503