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Steven B. Bloomfield ’77, associate director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, decided to organize the weekly walk nine months ago as a response to the Abu Ghraib scandals...
...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...
While the deficiencies in medical care at Abu Ghraib have gone largely unreported, the glare of the prison-guard scandal has compelled the U.S. military to launch major reforms. In the past year, the military says it has established a 52-bed hospital at the prison, staffed by 200 highly trained medical personnel. The number of detainees in U.S. custody is currently about 3,000. (The interim Iraqi government also houses prisoners there.) No date has been set, but the military would like to close the facility altogether, officially to avoid more insurgent attacks but, what's more, to wipe...
...Torture and Terrorists In his column "Where's the Outrage?" about the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings on Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales [Jan. 17], Joe Klein wondered why there was no outrage over the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guant?namo and elsewhere or over Gonzales' complicity in the Bush Administration's decision to use severe physical-interrogation techniques. A similar apathy was the response to the excesses of the Patriot Act, the question of immigrant rights, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's ineptness and arrogance, the need for affordable health insurance and, most tragic, the endless slaughter in Iraq. There...
...submitted my resignation to President Bush twice during that period." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Secretary of Defense, recalling the uproar over abuses at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison...