But when asked if that assessment applied to Pte England, Mr Arthur replied: “She never mentioned that she was frustrated. She said it was more for fun.”Defense lawyers have said that the army reservist from Fort Ashby, West Virginia, was following orders from higher-ups and that the US government has made her a scapegoat for an incident that stirred outrage in the Arab world.Pte England is charged with 13 counts of abusing detainees and six counts stemming from possession of sexually explicit photos, which the Army has said do not depict Iraqis. The maximum possible sentence is 38 years in prison.She is one of seven reservists from the 372nd Military Police Company who have been charged in the scandal. More than 100 bodies remain unidentified and families had reported a further 130 people missing..
Seeking to discredit claims that Private Lynndie England was following orders, prosecutors yesterday portrayed her as an out-of-control soldier who was photographed mocking Iraqi prisoners “just for fun”. Jose Duarte, a spokesman for President Nicanor Duarte, said yesterday: “One of the security guards told investigators that he received orders to lock the doors after the fire began.”But Javier Gonzalez, Juan Pio Paiva’s lawyer, said his client wasn’t present when the fire began and didn’t order the doors to be locked, Mr Gonzalez, said yesterday.Investigators from Argentina and Brazil are working at the shopping centre to determine whether the fire was caused by a gas leak in the food court.Earlier yesterday, authorities said the death toll had reached 464, with more than 400 people still in hospital. He added that state prosecutors Teresa Sosa and Edgar Sanchez would be seeking a jail sentence of five-to-25 years for the men.The prosecutors found evidence that victims were trapped when Mr Paiva allegedly ordered the doors to be locked to prevent looting, Mr Velazco said. Officials said they are also checking reports that an exploding gas canister could have started the fire.But yesterday Enzo Bobadilla, the baby who was carried dead from the fire by a policeman, Juan Duarte while trying to revive him, was released from hospital showing few ill effects from his ordeal. Officer Duarte picked the four-month-old boy from the rubble and used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to save his life.The manslaughter charges were filed with Judge Pedro Portillo at a federal court in the capital city, Asuncion, who took a statement from the defendants, Santiago Velazco, a spokesman for the National Police Department, said. The owners and security guards of the shopping centre destroyed by fire in Asuncion, Paraguay, on Sunday have been charged with manslaughter as the death toll from the tragedy reached 464 yesterday.
Juan Pio Paiva, the owner and president of Ycua Bolanos SA, his son Victor Paiva, and the security guards, allegedly locked shop doors during the fire at the three-story supermarket so that people could not leave without paying.
The spokesman, Scott McClellan, said: “I think you have to keep in mind al-Qa’ida’s history of planning attacks well in advance and then updating plans just before attacking.”Many Americans feel sceptical. Jorge Diaz, a building safety worker, told the Reuters news agency he thought the government was overcompensating for failing to give a warning three years ago He said: “At a certain point it becomes exaggerated.”. Why did we go to this level? I still don’t know that.”The alert on Sunday resulted in a rapid upgrading of security at the five institutions identified as al-Qa’ida targets: the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup in New York and the Prudential Financial building in Newark, New Jersey. It was that briefing on which the majority of reports were based.During the briefing one official, described only as a “senior intelligence official”, said: “The new information is chilling in its scope, in its detail, in its breadth. It also gives a sense, the same feeling one would have if one found that somebody broke into your house and over the past several months was taking a lot of details about your place of residence and looking for ways to attack.”The official added: “[The information demonstrates] al-Qa’ida is meticulous in its efforts and since 9/11 there has been an effort made to ensure that they have the information that they need in order to carry out attacks.”The Washington Post , one of many newspapers to carry the claims, yesterday quoted one senior law enforcement official briefed on the intelligence who said: “There is nothing right now that we’re hearing that is new.

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