US soldier at center of prison abuse goes on trial
US Army Spc. Charles Graner, the accused ringleader of the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal that outraged the world, goes on trial yesterday ready to offer a defence that he was just following orders.
Graner and Pvt. Lynndie England, with whom he fathered a child and who is also facing a court-martial, became the faces of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal after they appeared in photographs that showed degraded, naked prisoners.
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