Family defends US soldier accused of abusing Iraqi inmates

A soldier accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners of war claimed that his commanders silenced his questions about harsh, humiliating treatment of inmates, it was claimed today.

In a journal he started after military investigators looking into the abuse approached him in January, Army Reserves Staff Sergeant Ivan “Chip” Frederick wrote that Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad, was nothing like the Virginia state prison where he worked in civilian life.