In the headlines - Out on the leash

This bird is back on our TV screens here but not looking as pleased with herself as she was when she was back in lovely Iraq.

This is Lynndie England, the US soldier notorious for holding a naked inmate by a leash in the Abu Ghraib prison. Probably not a bad thing on its own, but getting your mate to take a picture and then going to Boots to get it developed? Plain stupid.

Old Lynndie, a former West Virginia chicken factory worker (whose ex-best customer Lee Day she lists as a friend) is quite frankly hideous out of uniform but the Abu Ghraib pin-up girl was in court on Tuesday and the 22-year-old Army clerk was sentenced to three years in prison by a military tribunal.

Lynndie's attorneys said she has learning disabilities and her school psychologist (I must have missed that class!) who knew her from when she was 4 years old said that she "has a very complex language-processing dysfunction."

The court was told these things make it hard for her to comprehend complex language, such as English.

Perfect for the American Army don't you think?