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Abu Ghraib Guards Were Scapegoats, U.S. Lawyers Say

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Abu Ghraib Guards Were Scapegoats, U.S. Lawyers Say

Sat Dec 4, 2004 05:01 PM ET

By Jon Herskovitz

FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - Two military guards implicated in the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal in Iraq were good soldiers caught in a muddled chain of command at a chaotic prison, their lawyers said at the start of pretrial hearings on Saturday.

Lawyers for Sgt. Javal Davis and Spec. Sabrina Harman said there was a breakdown of leadership and that their clients were scapegoats for the failures of a system that reached through the highest levels of the military bureaucracy and the Bush administration.

That same system also allowed for the abuse of prisoners in order to extract intelligence information, they said.

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