AP: U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey, Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal human rights envoy to Iraq said Wednesday. The envoy, legislator Ann Clwyd, said she had investigated the claims of the woman in her 70s and believed they were true.

The new photos from Abu Ghraib are very similar to the first wave: nude Iraqis chained together or to prison bars. On the cover, they run another photo of Pvt. England - who has been reassigned to Fort Bragg, NC, but according to the Post, has not been charged (which I assume means "not charged yet"). She is holding a leash-like string or cord that is tied around the neck of a naked prisoner on the ground. Quotes from her family take the expected, "others asked her to do it" tack, and England is quoted (via her mother) as saying, in what has to be one of the great double-meaning understatements ever, this: "Mom, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time." As I suspected yesterday based on Hersh's New Yorker article, there appears to be a strong element of souvenir-taking in all of this...