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Stripped of all insignia of rank, the soldier delivered to Iraq's infamous Abu Ghraib prison seemed just another anonymous victim of Saddam Hussein's capricious cruelty. He was swiftly executed, his bullet-ridden corpse crammed into an abandoned refrigerator. For General Kamel Sachet, a national hero, it was an ignominious...
...drama game of cat and mouse: The terrorists would act and the state would react with laws that many Germans felt curbed civil liberties, helping lift the Baader-Meinhof members to mythical status. It's a uniquely German story, but in the age of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, many of the themes also resonate with American audiences. "Eichinger has demonstrated that it is possible to treat stories that are inherently German in film in a way that they are interesting for people in other countries," says Alfred Hürmer, president of the film industry jury that picked...
...Causing horrific civilian deaths is often perfectly defensible under the laws of war, which favor conventional over unconventional forces in asymmetric warfare. The outright “crimes,” like the My Lai massacre, Abu Ghraib, or Russian massacres in Afghanistan and then in Chechnya, are less important for the civilian victims than the daily tactics of air assault, bombardment, and brutal door-to-door sweeps, meant to draw fire from the resisters that will justify leveling houses and the people in them...
...known as the Army Field Manual. The 384-page book lays out 19 interrogation techniques permitted by law and prohibits nine categories of others, including waterboarding, used by the Central Intelligence Agency during the Bush Administration, as well as forcing prisoners to be naked, as happened in the Abu Ghraib prisoner scandal. The Army Field Manual itself is specific; it includes precise instructions on the steps U.S. interrogators are to follow when trying to get information out of detainees, right down to how to establish rapport and when to take advantage of the emotional attachments of a prisoner...
...photos of the Abu Ghraib torture incident...