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Just Obeying Orders

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It didn’t work for the SS rank-and-file, why should it work for her?

Lynndie England, seen worldwide in photographs that show her smiling and pointing at naked Iraqi prisoners, said she was ordered to pose for the photos, and felt “kind of weird” in doing so [she] also confirmed that abuses worse than those depicted in the photos were carried out at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, but she declined to discuss them [she] repeatedly insisted that her actions were dictated by “persons in my higher chain of command.”

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