Finally, a proven link between Afghanistan and Iraq

What do you do with those in charge of an are coming under investigation for suspicious deaths? Send them to Abu Ghraib, of course!

Even as investigators were uncovering troubling evidence of prisoner abuse in Afghanistan, orders were cut to transfer the military intelligence company involved to Iraq and to Abu Ghraib. And within weeks of the deaths of two Afghan detainees, the officer in charge at the Bagram Collection Center, where the men died and where others are thought to have been mistreated, was awarded her first of two Bronze Stars for “exceptionally meritorious service.”

Geez. We gave her a medal for running a prison where people were dying under suspicious circumstances? Makes you wonder what you get for bravely taking on the enemy in battle. Oh yeah, lies and attacks on you service record by people who weren't even there. Maybe the Swifties should search for the truth on this story, instead.

Also from the Abu Ghraib side of things, a report on games people played:

Earlier reports and photographs from the prison have indicated that unmuzzled military police dogs were used to intimidate detainees at Abu Ghraib, something the dog handlers have told investigators was sanctioned by top military intelligence officers there. But the new report, according to Pentagon sources, will show that MPs were using their animals to make juveniles -- as young as 15 years old -- urinate on themselves as part of a competition.

"There were two MP dog handlers who did use dogs to threaten kids detained at Abu Ghraib," said an Army officer familiar with the report, one of two investigations on detainee abuse scheduled for release this week. "It has nothing to do with interrogation. It was just them on their own being weird."

Speaking on the condition of anonymity because the report has not been released, other officials at the Pentagon said the investigation also acknowledges that military intelligence soldiers kept multiple detainees off the record books and hid them from international humanitarian organizations. The report also mentions substantiated claims that at least one male detainee was sodomized by one of his captors at Abu Ghraib, sources said.

Words fail me.