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A Detailed Account of the Life of Army Spec. Charles Graner
From The Washington Post.... Army Spec. Charles A. Graner Jr., 35, ... has become the infamous guard of Abu Ghraib. But there are other, lesser-known images of him: In 1991, he was a 22-year-old soldier in Saudi Arabia, calling home at all hours to see if his wife was there. In 1992, he was working at a county prison in Pennsylvania with guards who acknowledge beating up prisoners as a means of control. In 1994, he made a fellow prison guard sick by spraying Mace into his coffee. In 1997, he was accused by his wife of threatening to kill her. In 1998, when he was working as a guard in a state prison, he was accused by one inmate of slipping a razor blade into his food. And in 2001, he was accused by his now-ex-wife of grabbing her by the hair, dragging her out of a bedroom and trying to throw her down the stairs. .... From interviews with people who had close contact with Graner at various points in his life, however, a portrait emerges of someone who went from "always smiling, always laughing" to angry by the time he left for Iraq. .... Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-06-05 |
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