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Even more remarkable than how the burqa bust came about was the identity of the operative that Pakistani officials announced they had netted: Abu Faraj al-Libbi, 40, a Libyan believed to be al-Qaeda's third-highest-ranking official--and one of the few individuals who counterterrorism experts believe may have knowledge of the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. But the arrest had barely been hailed by President Bush as a "critical victory in the war on terror" when the picture grew murky. According to an Islamabad intelligence source, the burqa-clad fugitive...
...addition to attempting to address the psychology of the various individuals involved, “Abu Ghraib” explicitly addresses certain questions regarding American perceptions of the scandal and various gaps within American media coverage...
...experience has been very rewarding,” Singh concludes. “We have intense discussions about Abu Ghraib, about what theater means, about what politics mean. From a theoretical perspective, it’s very interesting...
...case, with some producers outside of Harvard inquiring after the show, Singh and Ngiam have attained what they agree is their primary goal. “We’re hoping to get people to talk about “Abu Ghraib” in a way they won’t discuss other shows,” Ngiam says...
Whatever the failures of America’s Iraqi occupation—and from Abu Ghraib to distorted intelligence, there have been more than a few—liberals have got to recognize what the voters already see: that those mistakes are a shade of pale next to the atrocities that preceded them...