U.S. stops plan to return convicted soldier to Iraq

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. military commanders reversed plans to send a soldier convicted of offenses at the Abu Ghraib prison back to Iraq after news media disclosed the deployment, the U.S. Army said on Friday.

Spc. Santos Cardona, a dog handler during his assignment at Abu Ghraib, was convicted in June of using his dog to assault a prisoner at the jail outside Baghdad.

He was sent with his military police unit from the United States to Kuwait late last month and had been preparing to go into Iraq, the army said.

But after a reporter called to ask about the deployment and news of it began to spread, senior commanders ordered that Cardona should stay in Kuwait, fearing he and his unit could be targeted by insurgents because of his role at Abu Ghraib.


Desperate for warm bodies?

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1. How does that even happen? The man was convicted, shouldn't he be in a cell?

:shrug:

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2. They seam to be

conviently concidering it his punishment, to be sent back to Iraq. Malloy was just talking about it to.