Lynndie England

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Lynndie Rana England (born 1983) is a U.S. army reservist, one of several soldiers charged by the U.S. Army in connection with maltreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. During her tour of duty in Iraq she held the rank of Private First Class in the 372nd Military Police company.

She faces accusations of "assaulting Iraqi detainees on multiple occasions"; of conspiring with Spc. Charles Graner to mistreat prisoners; of committing an indecent act; and of committing acts "that were prejudicial to good order and discipline and were of nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces through her mistreatment of Iraqi detainees".

Born in Ashland, Kentucky, England moved to Fort Ashby, West Virginia, USA, when she was 2. She grew up in a trailer park as the daughter of a railroad worker, Kenneth England and Terrie England. Lynndie England joined the Army Reserve in 2001. In 2002 she married a longtime friend, James L. Fike, but they later divorced. She was sent to Iraq in 2003.

She is charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners of war at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. England appears in several photographs, taken in 2003 at the prison, smiling and mockingly pointing at naked and hooded young male prisoners. She is currently at the U.S. military installation at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, while the Abu Ghraib abuses are under investigation. Some legal experts have said that the United States could be obligated to try some of its soldiers for war crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, prisoners of war and civilians detained in a war may not be treated in a degrading manner, and violation of that section is a "grave breach".

England is engaged to — and reportedly pregnant by — fellow reservist Charles Graner, who appears with her in several photographs depicting allegedly abused prisoners.

Colleen Kesner, a local from England's home town, said: "A lot of people here think they ought to just blow up the whole of Iraq. To the country boys here, if you're a different nationality, a different race, you're sub-human. That's the way that girls like Lynndie are raised." "Tormenting Iraqis, in her mind, would be no different from shooting a turkey. Every season here you're hunting something. Over there, they're hunting Iraqis." [1] [2]

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