Word: ghraib
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American soldiers often have a tough time with Arabic names, so to guards, he was just "Gus.'' To the world outside Abu Ghraib prison, he became an iconic figure, a naked, prostrate Iraqi prisoner crawling on the end of a leash held by Private Lynndie England, the pixyish Army Reserve clerk who posed in several of the infamous photographs that made the name Abu Ghraib synonymous with torture. Now, it emerges, there may be another dimension to Gus' story and certainly to the horrors of Abu Ghraib. In what amounted to a perversion of the traditional doctor's creed...
...have lost everything but their lives. Prasanna Aryaprema Panadura, Sri Lanka Torture and Terrorists In his column "where's the outrage?," about the 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, Guantánamo and elsewhere or over Gonzales' complicity in the Bush Administration 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...
...open fire on peaceful demonstrators to blocking the publication of certain newspapers to shutting down the offices of Iraq’s trade unions and other civic groups. We have simply failed to pave the path towards a free society. Instead, we have followed the road to Abu Ghraib...
...particular, the ruling ought to make other nations, especially the United States and (believe it or not) France, sit up and take notice, especially as the American legal proceedings stemming from the prisoner abuse at the Baghdad Central Confinement Facility at Abu Ghraib get increasingly underway
...Army Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr. was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison for his role in the outrages against human dignity inflicted on Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib. Over the course of Graner’s trial, the prison guard painted a macabre picture of superiors’ instructing their subordinates to torture prisoners in violation of international law, of “ghost detainees being held without documentation to avoid their being examined by the International Red Cross, and of Army Rules of Engagement that instructed guards to follow a frightening escalating sequence of coercive tactics...