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	Abu Ghraib Files - Salon.com News
		The prisoner in perhaps the most iconic photo from Abu Ghraib, the hooded man standing on a box with electrical wires attached to his hands, was being interrogated by the CID itself for his alleged role in the kidnapping and murder of two American soldiers in Iraq.
		As Walter Shapiro wrote, Abu Ghraib symbolizes "the failure of a democratic society to investigate well-documented abuses by its soldiers." The documentary record of the abuse has come out in the media in a piecemeal fashion, often lacking context or description.
		Abu Ghraib in fall 2003 may have been its own particular hell, but the variations of individual abuse perpetrated appear to be exceptional in only one way: They were photographed and filmed.
	www.salon.com /news/abu_ghraib/2006/03/14/introduction (2109 words)

	Abu Ghraib - SourceWatch
		Abu Ghraib (also spelled Abu Gharib and Abu Ghurayb), the largest of ten Enemy Prisoner of War Camps in Iraq, is the location of the reputed "torture chamber of horrors" where Saddam Hussein had his political opponents tortured and hung.
		"Abu Ghraib was known as a colossal dungeon where the silent screams of its captives became the symbol of state terror.
		Abu Ghraib was an enormous victory for them, and it is unlikely that any response by the Bush administration will wipe its stain from the minds of Arabs.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Abu_Ghraib (3252 words)

	How Psychology Can Help Explain the Iraqi Prisoner Abuse
		According to Zimbardo, in the case of Abu Ghraib, where everyone – guards and prisoners alike – was trapped in an alien setting and had neither a common language nor culture, the situation was likely to produce a classic case of abuse.
		So it is also useful to remember that the perpetrators of abuse at Abu Ghraib were not committing these acts against their fellow Americans (or even against Iraqis they encountered in the street).
		According to news reports, the guards were reservists and most of them had not been trained to work in a prison or internment camp, had a low status in the military and had little or no training to interrogate terrorists or prisoners of war.
	www.apa.org /topics/iraqiabuse.html (1766 words)

	Abu Ghraib
		Abu Ghraib (pronounced "grayb") is a sprawling 280-acre gulag, complete with sniper towers and razor wire, dungeons and the stench of human fear.
		When the U.S. came storming into the country in spring of 2003, Abu Ghraib was left a smoldering ruin, looted by the local populace as the Saddam regime disintegrated.
		After receiving uncomfortable Red Cross reports regarding abuses in the Abu Ghraib Prison, the U.S. military responds by issuing new requirements that appointments be made before any inspections to the particular cellblocks in which the worst abuses occurred.
	www.rotten.com /library/crime/prison/abu-ghraib (3244 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Americas \| Q&A: Iraq prison abuse scandal
		The Schlesinger report said chaos reigned at Abu Ghraib, and criticised the guards' "brutality and purposeless sadism", but also blamed senior uniformed staff in the Pentagon for not preventing the abuse.
		The president condemned the Abu Ghraib abuse, but was criticised for not apologising to the Iraqi people for it when he gave interviews to Arabic TV stations, including the US-owned al-Hurra.
		The Abu Ghraib images have been printed and broadcast around the world, fuelling anti-US anger and undermining Washington's claims to be bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/3701941.stm (1252 words)

	Abu Ghraib
		Abu Ghraib is the norm; the interesting thing is that we think it is the exception.
		Abu Ghraib is not Auschwitz, but they are on distant parts of the same spectrum.
		Abu Ghraib is what you get when you deny applicability of the Geneva Conventions.
	www.spectacle.org /0604/abughraib.html (1779 words)

	"The Road to Abu Ghraib" by Phillip Carter
		Discussing the results of the independent investigation into Abu Ghraib he chaired, former defense secretary James R. Schlesinger explained that while "institutional and personal responsibility" for the abuses went all the way to Washington, they were rooted in the sadism and brutality of a few individuals--"Animal House on the night shift," as he put it.
		At Abu Ghraib, the ratio of military police was one to 75." Add in the pressure from the Bush administration to produce intelligence, and take away the legal constraints of the Geneva Conventions, and you can appreciate what a pressure cooker Abu Ghraib became.
		Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad movement has also benefitted from the Abu Ghraib scandal, citing abuses of Iraqi women there as the justification for the kidnapping and beheading of several Western hostages.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/2004/0411.carter.html (6704 words)

	Torture at Abu Ghraib, 5 May 04
		In the era of Saddam Hussein, Abu Ghraib, twenty miles west of Baghdad, was one of the world's most notorious prisons, with torture, weekly executions, and vile living conditions.
		The picture he draws of Abu Ghraib is one in which Army regulations and the Geneva conventions were routinely violated, and in which much of the day-to-day management of the prisoners was abdicated to Army military-intelligence units and civilian contract employees.
		As the photographs from Abu Ghraib make clear, these detentions have had enormous consequences: for the imprisoned civilian Iraqis, many of whom had nothing to do with the growing insurgency; for the integrity of the Army; and for the United States' reputation in the world.
	www.notinourname.net /war/torture-5may04.htm (3393 words)

	Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib \| News \| Telegraph
		The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad is at the centre of fresh abuse allegations just a week after it was handed over to Iraqi authorities, with claims that inmates are being tortured by their new captors.
		Abu Ghraib became synonymous with abuse after shocking pictures were published in 2004 showing prisoners being tortured and humiliated, galvanising opposition to the US presence in Iraq.
		Most of the prisoners held by the Americans at Abu Ghraib were either released in recent months or transferred to a new £32 million detention centre at Camp Cropper near Baghdad International Airport.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/10/wirq10.xml (1080 words)

	www.markdanner.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The second "master narrative" of Abu Ghraib is that of the Muslim preacher Sheik Mohammed Bashir, quoted above, and many other Arabs and Muslims who point to the scandal's images as perfect symbols of the subjugation and degradation that the American occupiers have inflicted on Iraq and the rest of the Arab world.
		In this sense Abu Ghraib is at once a microcosm of the Iraq war in all its failures and the proverbial canary in the mineshaft, warning of what is to come.
		Abu Ghraib was a mess; training was deficient; the chain of command was dysfunctional.
	www.markdanner.com /nyreview/100704_abu.htm (5203 words)

	A Different Drummer Commentary: Nicholas Stix
		Abu Ghraib is a mere pretext for the Times, which always hated Rumsfeld for pursuing the Administration’s policies with assertiveness, magnetism, and wit.
		Abu Ghraib was not Auschwitz, it was not German soldiers shooting allied POWs in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge, it was not My Lai, it certainly wasn’t people being shredded alive, and it wasn’t Hussein’s Abu Ghraib.
		Abu Ghraib was regrettable, and those who engaged in misconduct should be court-martialed and punished under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but that is it.
	www.geocities.com /nstix/abughraib.html (3193 words)

	Military.com
		Abu Ghraib became infamous because of an abuse scandal that unfolded there after the publication last April of photographs showing naked, terrified Iraqi prisoners being mistreated and humiliated by U.S. military guards.
		Abu Ghraib is a 280-acre facility, a jumble of top-security buildings and minimum risk tent cities, located along a dusty highway west of the city.
		Abu Ghraib and one another "theater-level" facility have become overcrowded, according to figures provided by the U.S. military over the weekend.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_prison_030805,00.html (806 words)

	AlterNet: MediaCulture: Abu Ghraib: A Global Family Portrait
		Yet in some sense all the Abu Ghraib images are tainted with this theme: each photograph blasphemes against the ideal of American soldiers in general and their "liberating" mission in Iraq in particular.
		Abu Ghraib attracted media attention last April, after the photographs were broadcast on television.
		Today, Abu Ghraib is often enough dropped into comma clauses by journalists wishing to scold Bush in a general way.
	www.alternet.org /mediaculture/21671 (1638 words)

	What Rumsfeld Doesn’t Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib -- In These Times (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thus a strange twist of logic might argue that the dramatisation of the cruel scenarios at Abu Ghraib was actually a compassionate act that limited the amount of actual torture.
		It was money that inspired the recordings at Abu Ghraib, just as it is money that made America interested in âfreeingâ Iraq, in the first place, just as it is the symbolic value of the Twin Towers that made them so ugly, and so vulnerable.
		Abu Ghraib is an example of media-darwinism: the survival of the noticed.
	www.inthesetimes.com /article/what_rumsfeld_doesnt_know_that_he_knows_about_abu_ghraib (2133 words)

	The Seattle Times: Opinion: Abu Ghraib hits home
		The Abu Ghraib news has triggered the biggest wave of interest in U.S. penal conditions in many years, says Kara Gotsch, spokesperson and trend-watcher for the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project.
		McCotter is the official who suggested that Abu Ghraib be used as the main U.S. prison in Iraq, and directed training of the guards there.
		Charles Graner, called the ringleader of the guards who assaulted and abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib, was formerly a guard at State Correctional Institution — in southwestern Pennsylvania.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/opinion/2001971935_peirce05.html (785 words)

	After Abu Ghraib \| Iraq \| Guardian Unlimited
		In her first weeks at Abu Ghraib, before the US military launched its internal investigation into prisoner abuse, torture was commonplace, she says.
		Alazawi is reticent about the question of sexual abuse of Iraqi women but says that neither she nor any of the other women in Abu Ghraib at the time were sexually assaulted by US guards.
		After the Abu Ghraib scandal broke in April, Alazawi was allowed to exercise in the scrubby yard outside for 10 minutes a day.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Iraq/Story/0,2763,1308346,00.html (2046 words)

	Annals of National Security: Torture at Abu Ghraib: The New Yorker
		In the era of Saddam Hussein, Abu Ghraib, twenty miles west of Baghdad, was one of the world’s most notorious prisons, with torture, weekly executions, and vile living conditions.
		As many as fifty thousand men and women—no accurate count is possible—were jammed into Abu Ghraib at one time, in twelve-by-twelve-foot cells that were little more than human holding pits.
		In an interview last December with the St. Petersburg Times, she said that, for many of the Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib, “living conditions now are better in prison than at home.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?040510fa_fact (1225 words)

	JURIST - Abu Ghraib
		The Abu Ghraib prison is located in Abu Ghraib, an Iraqi city 32 km west of Baghdad.
		Steven Jordan [CBS profile; JURIST news archive] was acquitted by a military jury Tuesday of failing to control soldiers under his command who abused detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison [JURIST news archive].
		The Jordan Abu Ghraib Verdict: Command Responsibility in the UCMJ
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /currentawareness/abughraib.php (636 words)

	Pacifica.org - "The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" - Doc Traces Path to Torture of Prisoners at Infamous Iraqi Prison
		That was an excerpt from the HBO documentary "The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib." The film traces the political and legal precedents that led to the torture of prisoners at the infamous Iraqi prison.
		Rory Kennedy is the producer and director of the "The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib." She is one of the nation's most prolific independent documentary filmmakers, focusing on issues such as poverty, human rights and AIDS.
		Rory Kennedy, producer and director of "The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib." She is co-founder and co-president of Moxie Firecracker Films.
	www.pacifica.org /program-guide/op,segment-page/station_id,4/segment_id,407 (925 words)

	Abu Ghraib Hits Home
		Lane McCotter, selected by Attorney General John Ashcroft to head a team of Americans to reopen Iraq's prisons, was forced in 1997 to resign as director of Utah's prisons after a case in which a mentally ill inmate died after guards left him shackled naked to a restraining chair for 16 hours.
		McCotter is the official who suggested that Abu Ghraib be used as the main U.S. prison in Iraq, and directed training of the guards there.
		Charles Graner, called the ringleader of the guards who assaulted and abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib, was formerly a guard at State Correctional Institution — in southwestern Pennsylvania.
	www.commondreams.org /views04/0705-02.htm (915 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Abu Ghraib onstage
		'Abu Ghraib,' written and directed by sophomore Currun Singh, probes the meaning of the 2004 prisoner abuse scandal through a combination of dialogue, film, music, and dance.
		"Abu Ghraib," written and directed by sophomore Currun Singh, probes the meaning of the 2004 prisoner abuse scandal using a combination of dialogue, film, music, and dance.
		Michael G. Jordan '08 is one of the actors in the multimedia theater piece based on events at Abu Ghraib prison.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2005/05.05/15-abu.html (807 words)

	For Iraqi women, Abu Ghraib's taint \| csmonitor.com
		Azzawi is part of a secret sisterhood: her mother is one of three women inside Abu Ghraib, the notorious prison where US soldiers took smiling snapshots of themselves sadistically humiliating Iraqis.
		Among the 1,800 or so pictures taken by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib, there are others, viewed by Congress but not released to the public, of at least one Iraqi woman forced to bare her breasts.
		She goes to Abu Ghraib and spends hours standing in the dusty parking lot, hoping to be allowed to see her mother.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0528/p01s02-woiq.html (1477 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. works to repair damage of Abu Ghraib (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, for example, the Army lacked enough military police soldiers, including those trained in managing prisons.
		In the wake of 11 investigations and reports into what went wrong at Abu Ghraib and other detention facilities, the Army recognized it had too few soldiers assigned to one of the more mundane jobs — prisoner control.
		The unit that was assigned to Abu Ghraib at the time of the scandal was a seldom-used Army Reserve unit from Maryland, called up because of a shortage of MPs, especially those trained in prison management.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-04-27-abu-ghraib-changes_x.htm (1244 words)

	Abu Ghraib Essays\| Abu Ghraib Dissertations
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		The city is the site of Abu Ghraib prison, which was one of the sites where political dissidents were incarcerated under former ruler Saddam Hussein.
		In 2003, Abu Ghraib prison earned international notoriety and the scorn of human rights advocates for alleged abuses by members of the United States Army Reserve during the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
	www.computing.degree-essays.com /abu-ghraib-essays.html (508 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration
		She didn't live at Abu Ghraib, and nobody was permitted to travel at night due to the dangerous road conditions.
		The only advantage of Abu Ghraib, the only advantage, was this 20-foot high retaining wall around the ground, acres and acres of the grounds of Abu Ghraib.
		At Abu Ghraib during July and the beginning of August 2003, we were holding several hundred prisoners.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/082405Z.shtml (10587 words)

	Remember Abu Ghraib?
		It was early last October that Kasim Mehaddi Hilas says he witnessed the rape of a boy prisoner aged about 15 in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
		The annexes accuse high-ranking military officials of setting conditions for torture in Abu Ghraib.
		Geoffrey Miller, who currently runs all of the prisons in Iraq, was sent to Abu Ghraib in order to speed up the intelligence-gathering process.
	www.motherjones.com /news/dailymojo/2004/08/08_510.html (1033 words)

	One year after Abu Ghraib, torture continues - Amnesty International
		Abuses by US forces in the “war on terror” have not been confined to Abu Ghraib; punishment of those involved or responsible has been inadequate; and torture is also used by the Iraqi security forces.
		The Abu Ghraib photographs, whilst shocking, were not entirely surprising.
		In Iraq the torture and abuse of detainees was not confined to Abu Ghraib and has been reported in other US-controlled detention centres.
	web.amnesty.org /pages/irq-280405-feature-eng (706 words)

	Abu Ghraib: US security fiasco \| The Register
		The wild scenes at Abu Ghraib have become emblems of all that is wrong with the Iraq campaign.
		They have struggled to paint the sadists at Abu Ghraib as a mere smattering of white-trash drifters operating independently, lest the military itself be seen as lacking discipline and virtuous leadership.
		Abu Ghraib has become political fodder, and in all cases, the emphasis has been on public perceptions and the impact of these perceptions on American prestige, ambitions, and collective self-esteem.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2004/05/24/us_security_fiasco (2297 words)

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