Word: ghraib
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...report on the power struggles in Iraq included a photo of children playing in Sadr City in front of a mural that paired an image of an Abu Ghraib prisoner with that of the Statue of Liberty. That picture showed the true extent of the damage that has occurred. The very people who came to liberate the Iraqis have treated them in ways that are similar to Saddam Hussein's. It makes one wonder whether the American forces have overstayed their welcome and whether it's time to hand over the country to the Iraqis?and to a leader...
...Ghraib prison scandal...
...reputation. Blame for the failures of the occupation can be spread across the whole spectrum of the U.S. military and political leadership--from the Pentagon planners who ignored warnings of the chaos that would follow "liberation" to the military commanders who tolerated the climate of brutality at the Abu Ghraib prison. But Bremer also comes in for his fair share. In interviews with TIME, a range of U.S., British and Iraqi officials said Bremer's tenure yielded some important achievements but was also plagued by misjudgment, insensitivity and stubbornness in the face of spiraling unrest and steadily deteriorating Iraqi support...
NOTEBOOK: New abuse charges at Abu Ghraib; fear after a beheading in Saudi Arabia; presidential portrait lore...
...beatings and sexual humiliation already alleged? Unreleased, classified parts of the report on prison abuse from Major General Anthony Taguba, which were read to TIME, contain indications of mistreatment of female prisoners. In a Feb. 21 statement to Taguba, Lieut. Colonel Steven L. Jordan, former head of the Abu Ghraib interrogation center, said he had received reports "that there were members of the MI [military intelligence] community that had come over and done a late-night interrogation of two female detainees" last October. According to a statement by Jordan's boss, Colonel Thomas Pappas, three interrogators were later cited...