Current New Yorker mag reports Lyndi England pregnant.

Divernan

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Sat May-01-04 11:45 AM
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Current New Yorker mag reports Lyndi England pregnant.

Buried deep (Paragraph Eight) in an article titled "Torture at Abu Ghrab", in the most recent New Yorker magazine:

www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040510fa_fact

is the statement:

"A seventh suspect, Private Lyndi England, was reassigned to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, after becoming pregant."

Sounds like a sweepsweek story line for a JAG episode. Have they ever had a pregnant defendant ?
I think this young woman is hard and calculating enough to see pregnancy as her best and only shot at getting sympathy in her upcoming court martial.

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Tuttle

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Sat May-01-04 11:55 AM
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1. Wonder if it is an Iraqi fetus?

Or maybe Rosemary's Baby.

Anyone here ever see Citizen Ruth?

Tut-tut

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DinahMoeHum

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Sat May-01-04 11:59 AM
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2. I don't know the timeline on this, but it's also possible that

Lynndie England may have gotten pregnant as a way to get out of Iraq.

It wouldn't be the first or the last time it's happened either, according to the folks at David Hackworth's website Soldiers For the Truth.

www.sftt.org

Piss-poor training and piss-poor leadership all around.

:argh:

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Warren Stuart

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Sat May-01-04 11:59 AM
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3. Reminds me of the movie "Chicago"

The Rene Zellwinger character faked a pregnancy to get extra attention and sympathy. I wonder...

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izzie

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Sat May-01-04 12:34 PM
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4. Very interesting, Maybe something will be done about "guns for hire":

Looks to me like a lot knew of this not just these 6 lower ranks.

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Ravy

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Sat May-01-04 12:42 PM
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5. Civillan contractors involved should be turned over to the Iraqis..

..and tried in their court system.

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