Word: ghraib
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...SENTENCED. JEREMY SIVITS, 24, U.S. Army specialist; to a year in prison, reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge; in the first court-martial stemming from the abuse of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison; in Baghdad. Sivits pleaded guilty to taking pictures of naked prisoners being humiliated. Three other soldiers were also arraigned last week...
...When Lyndie England explained that she and her fellow soldiers were ?following orders? by posing in those infamous photos for ?psy-ops? (psychological operations), she touched on a colonial memory. She suggested that all that was done at Abu Ghraib was informed by what Iraqis would find most damaging to their pride and ego. People can forgive what is done out of ignorance, but not what is done out of maliciousness...
...Modern Tortures. But there was something even more insidious about what was done at Abu Ghraib. Whether this violence was torture or not, it left few physical marks - it was stealthy violence. In the absence of the photographs, trophies taken illicitly by soldiers, we would not know fully what happened at Abu Ghraib...
...psychologist who works with victims of stealth torture observes that the feelings of shame, remorse and guilt ?would not have been experienced had the subjects been physically scarred.? Physical scars can be shown without shame; they win sympathy and recognition from families and communities. But the photographs at Abu Ghraib put the survivors in a vicious bind. What is necessary proof of modern stealthy violence also revives painful colonial memories and ancient humiliations. No wonder a bullet in the head is more preferable...
...particularly Iraq. The Rafah killings, twinned as they were in Thursday's news reports with unconfirmed claims that U.S. missiles had killed forty Iraqis at a wedding party in western Iraq, has undercut the Bush administration's best efforts to recover from the Arab-world PR disaster of Abu Ghraib. Ironically, part of the Bush administration's emergency PR salvage operation in the wake of the prison-abuse revelations was to hastily send Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to hold talks with Palestinian Authority prime minister Ahmed Qurei, to signal Arab leaders that Washington...