WP: Prisoner Abuse Scandal in Iraq Hits U.S. Troops on Front Line

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Disclosures Compound Struggle Against Increased Resistance

Saturday, May 15, 2004; Page A15

BAGHDAD, May 14 -- At Spec. Jesse Haggart's base, the photographs of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison have been flashing across the screens of the chow hall's two televisions in a seemingly endless loop.

But, a few miles away, in the swirling dust and heat of a checkpoint he was monitoring , those images fade in the face of constant deadly threat. Every few days, Haggart's platoon is fired on by hidden enemies.

"We're out here working our rears off, every day, and most people embrace us," said Haggart, a pale 21-year-old from Vancouver, Wash. But, he said, the uproar over prisoner abuse "has tarnished that."

At Haggart's outpost and in other troubled areas in Iraq, soldiers are facing new hostilities as they struggle to pacify the country six weeks before the United States hands over limited political authority to an interim Iraqi government. Disclosure of prisoner abuse has further complicated life for front-line soldiers, mostly by giving resistance leaders a new rallying point against the occupation.

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[liarliartieonfire]

1. " He's doing a superrrb job."

A supurb job for whom??

[saigon68]

3. the devil

[progressivebydesign]

2. Now that we attacked the Shiite holy place.. I expect the worst. N/T