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	Javal Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Javal 'Sean' Davis, (born 1977/78), is a U.S. Army reservist, one of several soldiers charged by the U.S. Army in connection with the 2003-2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Baghdad, Iraq during and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
		Davis, with other soldiers, is accused of allowing and inflicting sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of Iraqi prisoners of war.
		Javal Davis was charged with two counts of assault but was found not guilty in District Court in Baltimore County after his wife declined to testify.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Javal_Davis (440 words)

	CBSNews.com Who's Who Person
		Javal Davis pleaded guilty to three of the five charges against him in the Iraqi prison abuse scandal, as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
		Davis said he was upset because a female soldier had been hit in the face with a brick during the tent camp incident, and that he took out his anger on the prisoners.
		Davis is married, with a 4-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter, and his wife is in the Navy.
	www.cbsnews.com /elements/2004/05/04/iraq/whoswho615518_0_11_person.shtml (244 words)

	SR.com: Soldier gets six months for role in prisoner abuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		FORT HOOD, Texas – Sgt. Javal Davis, who admitted abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib in late 2003, was sentenced Friday to six months in a military prison and given a bad-conduct discharge from the Army.
		Davis will also be reduced in rank to private while serving his sentence, which could be as short as 4 1/2 months for good conduct in prison and credit for time served.
		Davis said that he saw detainees being physically mistreated and sexually humiliated by other guards but that he failed to help them or report the abuse, as required under military law.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=52344 (358 words)

	Sgt. Javal Davis pleads guilty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Davis, a 27-year-old former guard at Abu Ghraib, pleaded guilty Tuesday to battery, dereliction of duty and lying to Army investigators as part of a deal with prosecutors on the eve of his scheduled trial.
		Davis said that he knew his actions were wrong and that the abuse was not carried out as part of an approved regimen prior to interrogation, as other accused Abu Ghraib guards have claimed.
		Davis, serving with the Maryland-based 372nd Military Police Company, said he was upset because a female soldier had been hit in the face with a brick during a disturbance in a nearby prison tent camp, and that he took out his anger on the prisoners.
	zzpat.bravehost.com /feb_2005/jarval_davis_pleads_guilty.html (777 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Javal Davis, 27, also pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty and making a false official statement to Army investigators after photographs of naked and abused prisoners were made public last spring.
		Davis admitted to the court that he stepped on the hands and feet of seven detainees brought into his section of Abu Ghraib for punishment after a November 2003 disturbance in a prison tent camp nearby.
		Davis told the judge that he saw what he believed to be military and civilian intelligence personnel physically mistreating detainees and, among other things, using unmuzzled dogs to terrify prisoners prior to questioning.
	www.11alive.com /news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=58328 (519 words)

	Army Times - News - More News.
		Davis pleaded with jurors Thursday to show him mercy, saying he made a mistake by indulging in a few minutes of poor judgment.
		Davis described harsh conditions for the Abu Ghraib guards, saying they had to sleep in filthy jail cells and eat bad food while working long hours trying to control vast numbers of hostile prisoners.
		A psychology professor testified that Davis’ abuse of detainees was triggered by the violent atmosphere at the prison and a lack of military discipline among guards.
	www.armytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-636220.php (424 words)

	CNN.com - Lawyer: Soldier makes Abu Ghraib plea deal - Jan 31, 2005
		Javal Davis is expected to enter guilty pleas Tuesday to charges drastically reduced from the initial ones he faced, said Paul Bergrin, his attorney.
		Davis is one of three remaining named defendants in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal whose courts-martial are pending.
		Davis is charged with jumping on a pile of Iraqi detainees and stomping on their hands and feet.
	www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/01/31/abughraib.plea.deal (697 words)

	[No title]
		Javal 'Sean' Davis is seen in the Abraham Clark High School 1994 yearbook in Roselle, N.J., May 5, 2004.
		Sgt. Javal Davis, 26, of Maryland and Staff Sgt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick II of Buckingham, Va., were ordered to undergo a general court-martial, Kimmitt said.
		Davis said that it has always been his understanding that his actions were within the limits of what is acceptable in dealing with detainees.
	www.indybay.org /newsitems/2004/05/12/16807311.php?printable=true (878 words)

	Video: Turkey Shoot At Abu Ghraib
		JAVAL DAVIS: Next thing you know, the Medevac chopper's coming in, the helicopters coming in like crazy, they were taking out the wounded ones and the dead ones.
		JAVAL DAVIS: When we took over from the 72nd MP Company, you know, the guys were butt naked in the jail cells and had like panties on their head.
		JAVAL DAVIS: If you look at my record of trial, my record of trial, exactly what I'm accused of, exactly what I was charged with, step on the finger and toe of a detainee, landed on them with my body weight, getting up, yelling at them and leaving.
	informationclearinghouse.info /article12258.htm (3079 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Javal Davis said he was exhausted after a grueling day manning a watchtower and made the false statement because he wanted the Jan. 14 interview to end.
		Davis testified he had worked a 13-hour shift and had been asleep for less than an hour when he was woken up by officials including his company commander, Capt. Donald J. Reese.
		Davis and Graner are among soldiers accused of piling naked Iraqi prisoners into a human pyramid and photographing themselves standing by, grinning and giving the thumbs-up sign.
	www.11alive.com /news/usnews_article.aspx?storyid=50949 (829 words)

	Reservist gets six months in prison
		FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - Sgt. Javal Davis doesn’t have to serve much prison time for abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib in late 2003, but once his incarceration is over, so is his prized career as a soldier.
		Davis has already been credited with a month served, and his prison term could be reduced another three weeks for good conduct behind bars, said Capt. Chuck Neill, a spokesman for prosecutors.
		Davis, a 27-year-old reservist from Roselle, N.J., faced as many as 6½ years in prison for battery, dereliction of duty and lying to Army investigators.
	www.columbiatribune.com /2005/Feb/20050206News037.asp (452 words)

	USATODAY.com - Lawyer: Reservist will make plea deal in Abu Ghraib case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Davis, 27, of Roselle, had been charged with conspiracy to maltreat detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, dereliction of duty for failing to protect detainees from abuse, and maltreatment of detainees.
		Davis had been facing up to 8 1/2 years in jail, forfeiture of pay, reduction in rank and a dishonorable discharge.
		Davis might have received more lenient treatment because he was not in any of the photos, legal analysts said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-01-27-davis_x.htm (738 words)

	Sergeant pleads guilty in Abu Ghraib case - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		Davis admitted Tuesday that he stepped on the hands and feet of some of the seven detainees brought into his section of Abu Ghraib for punishment after a November 2003 disturbance in a prison tent camp nearby.
		Davis, serving with the Maryland-based 372nd Military Police Company, said he was upset because a female soldier had been hit in the face with a brick during the tent camp incident, and that he took out his anger on the prisoners.
		Davis told the judge that he saw what he believed to be military and civilian intelligence personnel physically mistreating prisoners and, among other things, using unmuzzled dogs to terrify prisoners before questioning.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6895067 (706 words)

	Atoning for Abu Ghraib - Salon
		On the day he lost his innocence before the eyes of the world, Sgt. Javal Davis was sitting in the mess hall at Victory Base in Abu Ghraib prison, eating a plate of rice and tuna fish.
		Davis ate mechanically, ignoring what the other soldiers were saying, occasionally glancing up at a TV screen.
		Davis is unable to look directly at his conversation partner, and he rubs his fingers together when he speaks.
	dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2005/10/01/abu_ghraib/index.html (1119 words)

	cbs2.com - Soldier Sentenced In Abu Ghraib Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Javal Davis, who admitted abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib in late 2003, was sentenced Friday to six months in a military prison and given a bad-conduct discharge from the Army.
		A nine-man military jury deliberated for about 5 1/2 hours to determine the punishment for Davis, a former Abu Ghraib guard who earlier this week confessed to stepping on the hands and feet of a group of handcuffed detainees and falling with his full weight on top of them.
		Bergrin said Davis will forever have a felony conviction on his record, and that he has performed 10 months of menial duties, including painting curbs and picking up trash, while confined to a U.S. base in Iraq after his arrest.
	cbs2.com /topstories/topstories_story_035223248.html (386 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Javal Davis, the first Army reservist to be freed from jail after serving time for the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, says he is a good person who was under tremendous stress in Iraq.
		Davis was released from military prison Sunday after serving less than four months for mistreating detainees.
		Davis, who served in Iraq with the 372nd Military Police Company, a reserve unit based in Maryland, said he and other military police officers at Abu Ghraib were ill-trained to deal with conditions there and constantly pressured to obtain information from detainees.
	www.armytimes.com /print.php?f=1-292925-889186.php (554 words)

	Iraq prison guards under intense stress, lawyers say (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Davis is charged with conspiracy to maltreat detainees, assault, dereliction of duty and making false statements.
		Davis, of Roselle, N.J., is one of three members of the 372nd Military Police Company being tried at Fort Hood on charges that they participated in the physical and sexual humiliation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in the fall of 2003.
		She was relieved of her duties when the prisoner abuse came to public attention with the release of photos of naked and hooded Iraqis and smiling military police soldiers.
	www.statesman.com /metrostate/content/metro/12/5abu_rs.html (693 words)

	Javal Davis
		I believe Davis ran across the room a total of two times and landed in the middle of the pile of detainees.” [Washington Post, 5/22/2004] “A couple of the detainees kind of made an ‘ah’ sound, as if this hurt them or caused them some type of pain.” In the meanwhile Pfc.
		Davis then allegedly tells Wisdom: “Who are you to tell me to stop?” [Los Angeles Times, 8/5/2004] Wisdom witnesses Frederick hitting a prisoner “in the side of his chest.” [Los Angeles Times, 8/5/2004; New Yorker, 5/10/2004] Frederick then takes notice of Wisdom looking on.
		Javal Davis (see August 24, 2004) in order to establish what evidence can or cannot be submitted to the court-martial [London Times, 8/23/2004]
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=javal_davis (2072 words)

	Two more Soldiers sentenced for Abu Ghraib abuse
		Sgt. Javal Davis, 372nd Military Police Company, was sentenced by a military panel of four officers and five enlisted Soldiers to: six months in a military prison; reduction in rank to private (E-1) and a bad conduct discharge upon completion of his prison time.
		Davis told Pohl he intentionally stepped on the hands and feet of a pile of hooded, handcuffed, naked Iraqi detainees; that he fell with his full weight of 220 lbs.
		Charles Graner Jr.'s defense during his court-martial at Fort Hood in January (that military intelligence was in charge and responsible), Davis' contention was the environment and atmosphere at the prison contributed to his actions.
	www4.army.mil /ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=6843 (1168 words)

	A Tale of Two Lives Destroyed by Abu Ghraib (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Javal Davis believes in the Last Judgment, and he wants to be standing on the right side when that time comes.
		Javal Davis is relieved when, in his second week at Abu Ghraib, they move him to wing 3 A/B, a section housing 400 prisoners, eight men to a cell -- rapists, petty thieves, kidnappers.
		Davis has trouble sleeping, and when he does sleep, he has nightmares of being shot at, of lying in his cell at Abu Ghraib, of smelling the feces and the urine and hearing the sounds of rocket-propelled grenades raining down on the camp.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1494776/posts (8091 words)

	CNN.com - Abu Ghraib soldiers plead guilty - Feb 2, 2005
		While questioning Davis on the charge of dereliction of duty -- specifically failing to protect detainees from abuse -- the judge asked whether Davis saw fellow soldiers abusing prisoners, according to the military spokesman.
		Davis and Krol are the latest soldiers to plead guilty in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
		Davis' attorney, Paul Bergrin, has told CNN he wanted the language changed because Davis insists he never meant to injure the detainees.
	www.cnn.com /2005/LAW/02/01/abughraib.plea.deal/index.html (726 words)

	FirstCoast News.com - Print Article
		Davis is facing charges in connection with prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
		In an agreement with prosecutors, Sgt. Javal Davis, 27, pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty, battery and making a false official statement to Army investigators after explicit photographs from the prison were made public last spring.
		Davis, from Roselle, N.J., pleaded not guilty to two other charges: conspiracy and maltreating detainees.
	www.firstcoastnews.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=31685 (148 words)

	Military Jury Weighs Prison Abuse Case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Davis has pleaded guilty to battery and two other charges in connection with the prisoner abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
		Javal Davis, a 27-year-old Army reservist, faces up to 6 1/2 years in prison for battery, dereliction of duty and lying to Army investigators.
		Davis confessed this week to stepping on the hands and feet of a group of handcuffed detainees and falling with his full weight on top of them in late 2003.
	www.comcast.net /data/news/2005/02/05/52293.xml (404 words)

	Novakeo.com » Blog Archive » Video: Turkey Shoot At Abu Ghraib: Tales of Murder and Torture
		JAVAL DAVIS: The military intelligence personnel, they had an analyst, a linguist and an interrogator, their job, they come up with a list of instructions - “OK, keep this guy up, he can sleep up to two hours, up to 5 hours, sleep for 15 minutes, up.
		JAVAL DAVIS: Of course, I mean, it’s… I mean who wants to… First off my attitude was I’m tired, I’m the MP, I’m the combat support MP, it’s not my job.
		Javal Davis always saw himself as a proud and dedicated soldier but the way he was treated by the military has left him deeply disillusioned.
	novakeo.com /?p=483 (3091 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Two more Americans formally charged in Abu Ghraib case
		Davis has been charged with conspiracy to maltreat detainees, dereliction of duty for failing to protect detainees from abuse, maltreatment of detainees, rendering false official statements and assault.
		Davis allegedly forced detainees into a pile "and jumped on" them, the charge sheet said.
		Davis was also accused of lying to an investigator about such incidents, the charge sheet said.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595062696,00.html (556 words)

	Bill and Kent's Place on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		FORT HOOD, Texas Feb 2, 2005 — Sgt. Javal Davis knew all along he was wrong to step on the hands and feet of prisoners at Abu Ghraib on a warm night in November 2003.
		Davis, a former guard at the Baghdad prison, recounted daily mortar attacks and hostile detainees armed with homemade knives.
		FORT HOOD, Texas Feb 5, 2005 - Sgt. Javal Davis doesn’t have to serve much prison time for abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib in late 2003, but once his incarceration is over, so is his prized career as a soldier.
	billandkent.com /blog/archives/001602.htm (1561 words)

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