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Standing behind a pyramid of naked inmates at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, Specialist Charles Graner became the poster boy for detainee abuse. Now Graner could spend more than 17 years in his own cell for his alleged leading role in the abuses. Three other members of Maryland's 372nd Military Police Company have pleaded guilty; three more, including Graner's girlfriend, Private First Class Lynndie England, face charges. Specialist Joseph Darby, the unit member who first reported the abuses, is in hiding after multiple threats...
...microphone and camera, far from the critical and moralizing eye, and veiled from the force of law, that matters most. The actual, free exercise of power, distant from its dolled-up rhetorical intent, betrays and cancels the original intentions of its architects. The blood stains at Abu Ghraib, and the flattening of Falluja, and not the confident speeches of Rumsfeld and Bush, expose the true intentions of America’s extension of power...
Like a recurring nightmare, Abu Ghraib never quite goes away. The alleged ringleader of the horrors inflicted at the Baghdad prison, whose grin and thumbs-up over the body of a dead Iraqi prisoner became an image of national shame, showed up for his court-martial in Fort Hood, Texas, last week, with a clean shave and a solemn face. A day earlier, President George W. Bush's choice for Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, who played a large role in orchestrating, if not actually drafting, a change in the Administration's rules on torture, was asked to explain himself before...
WHAT WENT WRONG AT ABU GHRAIB...
...according to the Schlesinger report, was made up "all too often" of Iraqis who were not valuable targets but bystanders caught in random roundups. Add to that the facts that the Army's intelligence units were poorly trained and badly managed, and the military police units assigned to Abu Ghraib were filled with reservists who showed poor judgment--and some of whom are now the subject of courts-martial. (See above...