Records Paint Dark Portrait Of Guard

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Before Abu Ghraib, Graner Left a Trail Of Alleged Violence
In perhaps the most famous of the photographs, he is the one standing behind the now-iconic pyramid of prisoners, all of them naked and hooded as he looks into the camera and smiles. In other photos, he is the one aiming his fist at a prisoner he has collared around the neck, kneeling on prisoners whose hands are tied behind their backs, and raising his left index finger in a "No. 1" sign as he squats next to a prisoner who is bruised, bandaged and dead.

These are the images the world knows so far of Army Spec. Charles A. Graner Jr., 35, who in the unfolding Iraq prisoner-abuse scandal has become the infamous guard of Abu Ghraib. But there are other, lesser-known images of him:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16832-2004Jun4.html

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1. Graner....

worked at SCI Greene. Same prison where Mumia is incarcerated.

Edited to add link:

http://ccadp.org/SCI_GREENE.htm

Much abuse, no criminal charges filed

[Straight Shooter]

2. Graner is the classic Ugly American, unrestrained

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The second-shift guards, they did have an attitude," says John Stossel, 57, who worked as a guard at the prison from 1978 to 2000. "They were fighting a war as far as they were concerned."

How was the war fought?

"Did we kick people's asses in there? Yes, we did. I'm not going to deny it," says Opel, who was a guard at the prison from 1992 to 2002, when he was terminated for chronic lateness.
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So Graner likes fighting wars.

How long until we find a link exists between Graner and Nick Berg?