MSG Girman is accused of willfully failing to safeguard from assault or abuse captured Iraqi prisoners of war; kicking a detainee in the groin, abdomen and head; kicking, punching and dragging a detainee by the armpits; kicking a detainee in the face and leg; perjury;and obstruction of justice. All charges were withdrawn and dismissed with prejudice on 7 Jan. 2004. Document is a transcript of the proceedings and documents that accompany trial. Incident is as follows: On 12 May 2003 detainees were being transferred from Talil Air Base to Camp Bucca. Upon arrival at Camp Bucca, MSG Girman was seen to have verbally and physically abused several detainees, all of whom were injured in some way (one detainee on crutches was struck and dragged by his arms, another detainee with a dislocated shoulder was held in a goosehold and kicked). Testimony is from soldiers and detainees involved in the incident. The soldiers' testimony is mixed concerning whether detainees resisted and were abused. One witness comments about a detainee who was being roughly escorted, "They never gave this guy a chance to be compliant" (DOD 11232). S/he also notes that several of the detainees were in physical pain and terrified of the soldiers' rough treatment and that if they had not been supervised, the soldiers would have hurt many more detainees. Another witness testifies about the detainee being gooseheld and kicked, "You use that move to incapacitate somebody. You don't use that to motivate someone to walk or move faster" (DOD 11291). Another witness testifies that the detainee who was kicked in the groin was an alleged rapist, and that MSG Girman had said she would teach him "a lesson about his conduct towards females" which would include "physically harming him" (DOD 11439). All detainees cite abuse in their testimony. One detainee testifies through a translator, "The lawyer told him through Iraqi Major if you change your testimony we can release you tomorrow. The Major informed that he did hear that directly from the lawyer and they inform him maybe we delay this trial two months. And we have been here four months and this holding, it seems to me, is way of making pressure on me to change my story or not telling the truth" (DOD 11576).