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...glass to overflow. Before that extension, hope had been raised in hearts and minds of the people. They thought that with a new president, perhaps there will be a new policy and a new era. Their disappointment was like an explosion. Many other things, including the assassination attempt against MP Marwan Hamade, strengthened feelings against the Lebanese government and Syria...
...statement obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, an Army medic based at Abu Ghraib spoke of examining from 800 to 900 detainees daily as they were admitted. If he worked a 12-hour day, that gave him less than a minute for each exam. Ken Davis, an MP who served at Abu Ghraib in late 2003, told TIME that he once escorted a prisoner who had broken his foot the day before and had still not received treatment. "He was in terrible pain," Davis recalled. "There was no doctor and really nothing we could...
Hoping to cauterize the wound there and keep infection from higher-ups, Pentagon officials claimed that the misfits went wrong because of broad failings inside the prison. If anyone up the line was to blame, they said, it was the MP commander, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who paid too little attention to her rogue company. "My assessment," said Lieut. General Keith Alexander, the Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence, "is there was a complete breakdown of discipline on the MP side." He was seconded on that point by Major General Antonio Taguba, author of the scathing Army inquiry...
...break. They usually end up breaking within a couple of hours." Around the time military officials launched a criminal investigation, Frederick's e-mails started to include qualms about his Abu Ghraib duties. In January he wrote, "I questioned some of the things that I saw." And not every MP agreed to go along. The Taguba report says Specialist Jason Kennel declined to do MI's dirty work without formal paperwork...
...other hand, some experts on torture deeply doubt that members of an MP company from a small town could have come up with something like the pose seen in one of the most infamous images from Abu Ghraib--one in which a hooded prisoner stands on a box with electrical wires connected to his arms and genitals. The photo could have been a textbook illustration of a classic torture method known as crucifixion, says Darius Rejali, an associate professor of political science at Reed College and author of Torture and Modernity. This kind of standing torture was used...