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...BOOK INCLUDES A SECTION ON ABU GHRAIB. WHAT'S THE CONNECTION? I've seen the death penalty up close, and I know it's the practice of torture. Anybody who is led to an execution chamber has shackles on their hands and feet. They've been kept in a room shorter than cells in Abu Ghraib, and for 15, 25 years...
...Iraq yields leads about Maupin's whereabouts. According to U.S. military officers in Iraq, an Iraqi detainee recently led U.S. forces to the shallow grave of William Bradley, a civilian killed in the assault on Maupin's convoy. The detainee also fingered a gang in his village of Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, as the men involved in the attack in which Maupin went missing. In the first week of January, U.S. and Iraqi special forces raided the village, seized eight suspects--one of whom led to 20 more--and found U.S. uniforms, weapons and a water cooler. If evidence...
...civilian contractors were hauling diesel fuel in 17 tanker trucks across 60 miles from the U.S. military's main logistics base at Camp Anaconda in Balad to Baghdad International Airport. Just west of Baghdad at about 10:30 a.m., the convoy came under sudden attack on the six-lane Abu Ghraib Expressway. "We're taking fire in the rear!" radioed a truck driver. Within seconds, the entire convoy was under a barrage from an estimated 150 insurgents lurking in roadside shacks. Bullets, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars peppered the vehicles. Fuel, pouring from punctured tankers, turned the highway as slick...
...town of Panamao. The rebels say that the ambush was provoked by a military offensive the day before in which a local ustadz, or religious mentor, his wife and two children died. (The military is silent on that story.) The rebels include members of Abu Sayyaf, an al-Qaeda linked kidnap-for-ransom group, and renegades of the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), a Muslim group that once fought for a separate state. The military estimates the rebels' numbers at 800. By the end of the week, the armed forces had sent seven battalions?roughly 3,000 soldiers...
...moment of conscience in which I was reacting to the Abu Ghraib prison torture and abuse that Americans were perpetrating,” Bloomfield says. “I came to think it was a behavior that needed to be recognized, there needed to be a public coming together of people, and the awareness that the people of Arab nations were not being served by these acts...