Iraq contractor sentenced for child porn (on Abu Ghraib prison network)

Iraq contractor sentenced for child porn
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A U.S. contractor who worked at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was sentenced to more than three years in prison Friday for possessing child pornography that he obtained using the prison's computer network.

Ahmed Hasan Khan, 31, of Woodbridge, had been working at Abu Ghraib for contractor L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. in November 2005 when a network administrator at the prison saw that Khan had been visiting suspicious sites. A search of Khan's laptop computer later found hundreds of child pornography images, including children as young as 4, officials said.

Khan apologized at Friday's sentencing hearing.

"I let my country down at a time when it needed its armed services the most," he said.