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For most of his adult life, Torin Nelson, had been an interrogator, first as a noncommissioned officer in the Army and National Guard, then as a civilian contractor. Last September, defense contractor SYTEX Inc, hired him. Come October, according to his project manager, Nelson would be winging toward Afghanistan as part of a contract with the Army, interrogating suspected Taliban cadre. But on Oct 1, 2005, on a military flight out of Ramstein Air Base in Germany, his project manager informed him that his contract has been terminated by the client. The decision was based on his association with the high-profile issues surrounding Abu Ghraib. If he had been one of those at Abu Ghraib who had violated everything from common decency to international law by beating and terrorizing Iraqi prisoners, he could understand being thrown off the contract. But Nelson says he was not one of those people.
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Haunted by Abu Ghraib
ON OCT. 3,2005,TORIN NELSON walked off a U.S. C-5 aircraft at Manas Air Base just outside Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, feeling like all was right with the world. For most of his adult life, Nelson, 36, had been an interrogator, first as a noncommissioned officer in the Army and National Guard, then as a civilian contractor. His most recent job had been as an instructor helping to train new interrogators. But after several months at "the schoolhouse"-the Army Intelligence Center and School at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.-Nelson concluded that he wasn't quite ready to hang up his spurs. His passion still lay in real-world interrogations.
So he couldn't have been happier last September when Doylestown, Pa., defense contractor SYTEX Inc., owned by Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin Corp., hired him and told him to start packi...See the full content of this document
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