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...Eventually Yunis, after enduring a ritual beating, is imprisoned (along with his siblings) in Camp Ganci, a satellite of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Ganci houses prisoners who have no intelligence value - it seems to be simply a place to file and forget American mistakes - and its population mainly sits around sweltering in the deadly desert heat, without adequate food, sanitation or medical attention. Now and then, insurgents subject it to mortar fire, randomly killing some of its inhabitants, who from time to time riot in protest over their treatment. If there's a grace note to be found...
...back subordinates rather than sack them, since he would view that as tantamount to a rebuke of his own stewardship. He applied this kind of pre-emptive backing to big mistakes - like the poor execution of the military's occupation of Iraq - and lesser ones too, like the Abu Ghraib prison scandal...
...American conflicts are juxtaposed with post-Sept. 11 images in order to present evidence for both the benefits and perils of government secrecy. Examples of heightened security like the Manhattan Project and the Cold War highlight the importance of information secrecy, while political atrocities such as the Abu Ghraib scandal illuminate how secrecy can be used as a shroud to condone harm and, as one film interviewee describes, to “dip back into the well of evil in the human soul.” The film is narrated only by a portentous score from local composer John Kusiak...
...Ghosts of Abu Ghraib”—the work of the youngest daughter of Robert F. Kennedy ’48—played before an emotional audience last night at the IOP Forum. “This is not just about Abu Ghraib,” Rory E. K. Kennedy said. “It’s about America and who we are as a country.” In the HBO documentary, Kennedy juxtaposes personal interviews with six Iraqi detainees and various prison guards who have served time for abuse. “What...
...fitting that Saddam Hussein died, as many of his political opponents did, dangling from the end of a rope. He had used the gallows at Abu Ghraib to silence opposition and dissent. In doing so, he had controlled Iraq for over two decades, but he created a generation of enemies. And some of those enemies, who never forgot their fathers and brothers who disappeared in the night, were there to watch...