An Abu Ghraib guide, with links, news, and comments. Beginning in 2004, accounts of abuse, torture, sodomy and homicide of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (also known as Baghdad Correctional Facility) came to public...
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An Abu Ghraib guide, with links, news, and comments. Beginning in 2004, accounts of abuse, torture, sodomy and homicide of prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (also known as Baghdad Correctional Facility) came to public attention. The acts were committed by some personnel of the 372nd Military Police Company of the United States Army together with additional American governmental agencies. These additional agencies have been referred to as the OGA (Other Government Agencies), which is an often used euphemism for the Central Intelligence Agency.
PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - When documentary film maker Rory Kennedy wanted to make a movie about why ordinary people commit extraordinary acts of evil, the images of U.S. soldiers torturing detainees at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison kept coming back to haunt her.
... former detainees who had been tortured at Abu Ghraib and other Iraqi prisons, they invited Philadelphia-based artist Daniel Heyman to tag along. ...
Four years and 1.5 million words worth of interview transcripts later, Gourevitch has published a book on the American soldiers’ experiences in Abu Ghraib. ...
Four Iraqi girls in the same Shi'a family in the Abu Ghraib district were wounded in an attack in which unknown operatives planted explosive devices on their home in the night, local sources told IraqSlogger.
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By Sherwood Ross
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