Word: ghraib
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...Booker panel chairman Chris Smith said, "The fact it can be considered as a perfectly valid part of contemporary fiction without regarding [gay relationships] as unique shows how much times have changed." SENTENCED. STAFF SGT. IVAN L. FREDERICK II, 38, highest ranking U.S. Army reservist accused in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; to eight years in prison; at a court martial in Baghdad. The sentence also includes a reduction in rank, to private; a forfeiture of pay; and a dishonorable discharge. Frederick, who pleaded guilty to five of eight charges, is one of seven charged in the scandal; his sentence...
...outrage that torture has been so widespread under Rumsfeld’s watch. Rumsfeld and the Bush administration must take responsibility for the dehumanizing acts that have taken place at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and they must make sure that the use of torture has been completely and permanently stopped. As long as detainees’ rights are violated, we desecrate principles integral to our American identity—the same principles that we are supposed to be defending by waging a war on terror...
...Iraq has, of course, had enormous implications…[for example,] the doctrine of pre-emption, the incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo,” Bhabha said. “Never before has America been the focus of so much political hostility...
BORN to PRIVATE FIRST CLASS LYNNDIE ENGLAND, 21, U.S. soldier seen holding a leash in some of the most notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and Specialist Charles Graner Jr., 36, also shown in prison photographs; a son; in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The parents are among seven reservists charged in connection with abuse at the prison late last year. The West Virginia mother is scheduled to stand trial in January on charges that carry a maximum sentence of 38 years. NAMED PRINCE NORODOM SIHAMONI, 51, former ballet dancer and son of ex-King Norodom Sihanouk, who abdicated...
...stage-managed the Iraq war like the patriarchal paragon of an earlier era, flouting his rigid style as not only the best way to maintain rule of the roost, but also the only appropriate one. Wielding a firm hand and a tight leash (literally, in the case of Abu Ghraib), the Bush administration has been crystal clear about its house rules: dissent is disregarded (and, in some cases, ridiculed); information is routinely withheld; and input from members of our global family deemed bothersome...