Word: ghraib
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There was never any question about whether to run the abuse pictures from Abu Ghraib. After all, these photographs did not simply illustrate a story; they were the story, and we did as others did, blurring the genitals of the prisoners but otherwise showing what the world saw. For the cover image, we chose not to run a picture but instead asked artist Matt Mahurin to do an illustration of a hooded prisoner with his hands tied behind his back, a haunting image that captured the drama of the moment better than any single photograph could...
Another big stack of pages is causing concern over at the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is investigating abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Committee aides discovered belatedly that their copy of the 6,000-page report on prison abuses produced by Major General Antonio M. Taguba might not be complete. The copy they got after Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's testimony on May 7 was a thick document with 106 annexes, and it was quickly arranged into separate binders. Only later did the committee stack up all the pages, compare them with a ream of 6,000 blank...
...Ghraib prison in Iraq has been a public relations nightmare for the Bush Administration. But the prison was once a site where Saddam Hussein brutally tortured his own citizens, and this week the White House will get a chance to remind Americans of that--and provide some more news that is uplifting...
...nine Iraqi businessmen were arrested and sent to Abu Ghraib on Saddam's orders. After a cursory trial on charges of illegally trading foreign currency, each was sentenced to have an X carved into his forehead and his right hand cut off. Saddam had the procedure filmed and the hands delivered to him. The men were even charged $50 apiece for the procedure. Seven of those men will be in Washington this week to shake hands--new bionic hands--with wounded American soldiers from Walter Reed Army Medical Center and to meet with President Bush...
SENTENCED. JEREMY SIVITS, 24, U.S. Army specialist; to one year in jail and a bad-conduct discharge; for taking pictures of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated; in the first court-martial stemming from abuse at Abu Ghraib prison; in Baghdad...