Word: ghraib
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...challenges the imagination to believe that anything good could come out of an awful month in Iraq. But amid the rubble of Fallujah and the gruesome images from the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, a bad idea has died. That is something...
...couple of weeks ago, disturbing photographs were circulated around the globe that showed American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad engaging in malicious torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners. Yet, in addressing the atrocities, President Bush said curtly: “I think they’ll be taken care of.” His sentiment was similar to that voiced by New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan, who refused to publish pictures of the abused Iraqi prisoners. Allan reasoned: “If there’s a handful of U.S. soldiers who?...
...photographs taken at the Abu Ghraib prison reveal American soldiers laughing and taunting naked Iraqis and forcing them into humiliating sexual positions. One photo showed seven naked men piled in a human pyramid; others revealed male prisoners being forced to masturbate and simulate oral sex with each other...
...isolated incident, it would have been bad enough. But it seems that this incident falls into a larger, almost routine, trend of abuse. At a hearing for Sergeant Ivan L. Frederick II—one of six members of an Army Reserve military police unit at the Abu Ghraib prison now facing prosecution on charges of conspiracy, cruelty toward prisoners, maltreatment and indecent acts—it was revealed that no specific restrictions were ever set on what could, and could not, be done to prisoners. It has since come to light that Frederick once hit a prisoner...
...Ghraib Prison is, even by Iraq's perversely high standards, a place with a barbarous history. During Saddam Hussein's cruel regime, torture, humiliation and random murder were standard fare within its walls. That was all supposed to have changed when coalition forces took over last year and began filling the jail with captives from the motley Iraqi resistance. But it seems that echoes of those unsavory traditions have persisted...