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Specialist Baker  New York Times  The prison abuse scandal
refuses to die because soothing White House explanations keep
colliding with revelations about dead prisoners and further
connivance by senior military officers -- and newly discovered
victims, like Sean Baker.  If Sean Baker doesn't sound like an
Iraqi name, it isn't. Specialist Baker, 37, is an American, and
he was a proud U.S. soldier. An Air Force veteran and member of
the Kentucky National Guard, he served in the first gulf war and
more recently was a military policeman in Guantánamo Bay.  Then
in January 2003, an officer in Guantánamo asked him to pretend
to be a prisoner in a training drill. As instructed, Mr. Baker
put on an orange prison jumpsuit over his uniform, and then
crawled under a bunk in a cell so an "internal reaction force"
could practice extracting an uncooperative inmate. The five U.S.
soldiers in the reaction fo