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FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) - Lynndie England, 22, pauses for a long time as she considers how she turned from a chicken factory worker into the symbol of America's abuse of Iraqi detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
A pained smile flashes across the face made famous across the world when she was pictured holding a naked Iraqi prisoner by a leash. Then the U.S. Army reservist blames her downfall on Charles Graner, the abuse ringleader and father of her 11-month-old child, Carter. "Let's start the list: I guess first and foremost is he tricked me into believing he was a good person, and that he used me," she said in a one-hour interview with Reuters before her incarceration. "I wouldn't be in this mess if I didn't know him. (Second), for abandoning me when I was pregnant, and for abandoning Carter."