http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040509/ap_on_re_us/prisoner_abuse_whistleblower&cid=519&ncid=1480The military policeman who blew the whistle on fellow soldiers who were photographed abusing Iraqi detainees has an independent streak and knew "right from wrong," say people who know him.
Spc. Joe Darby was commended in a military report for promptly alerting superiors after discovering photographs of fellow 372nd Military Police Company personnel taking part in abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Darby, 24, who is still on duty overseas, "didn't worry about what people thought," said Robert Ewing, Darby's history teacher and football coach at North Star High in Jennings, Pa. "He wasn't one that went along with his peers."
Darby's tip led to an investigation of prisoner abuse that has outraged people around the world and changed the tenor of America's war effort in Iraq.
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