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Search results for "Abu Ghraib Prison" ...
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"Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America"
In this book, author Anne-Marie Cusac reveals how America has become a nation of victims searching for revenge, rather that a "community that cares for its own." The cultural shift has impacted the criminal justice system, causing even "law-abiding" citizens at risk of "suffering retribution in American jails." The book illustrates how cultural trends have "transformed" America into a "society of punishment."
Tags: prison; jail; punishment; inmates; capital punishment; punitive physical pain; corporal punishment; Abu Ghraib; Guantanamo
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Mopping Up
An examination of a single army battalion that was trained and sent to the Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison, in 2004 and 2005 as the scandal reached full intensity.
Tags: Saddam Hussein; 9/11; terrorism;
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Inside Gitmo
"Speaking publicly for the first time, senior U.S. law enforcement investigators say they waged a long but futile battle inside the Pentagon to stop coercive and degrading treatment of detainees by intelligence interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
Tags: Abu Ghraib; Navy; Army; military; prisoner; terrorism; hijack; Mohammed al-Qahtani; Saudi Arabia; Alberto R. Gonzales; interrogation; torture; Guantanamo
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In Secret Unit's Black Room; A Grim Portrait of U.S. Abuse
On the outskirts of Baghdad Iraqi prisoners were found to have been abused by the U.S. Special Operations forces. The prisoners were yelled at, spit on, struck with rifle butts, and were used in practice for shooting paintball guns.
Tags: Task Force 6-26; counterterrorism; terrorism; Iraq; Abu Ghraib
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City
This book uses the Coalition Provisional Authority's Green Zone Headquarters in Baghdad to detail "the incompetence and arrogance that bedevilled the [American government's]effort to reconstruct and govern Iraq in the crucial first year after the fall of Saddam Hussein's government." Chandasekaran's sources included former CPA employees who had returned to the U.S. after sovereignty was re-established in Iraq.
Tags: Coalition Provisional Authority; CPA; Green Zone; Washington Post; FOIA; Department of Defense; DOD; Pentagon; Government Accountability Office; GAO; State Department; Ambassador Paul L. Bremer; Kurdish Regional Government; de-Baathification; U.S. Agency for International Development; USAID; Persian Gulf War; Sunni Tiangle; Abu Ghraib Prison; Paul Wolfowitz
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America's Interrogation of Terrorists
TIME Magazine's investigation into American interrogation techniques used when questioning Abu Ghraib prisoners reveals massive coverups and mistreatment of terrorist suspects. This series also sheds light on the death of a CIA prisoner whose body was kept on ice for 24 hours to disguise his true cause of death.
Tags: Abu Ghraib; interrogation techniques; CIA; FOIA; health care; prison; Manadel al-Jamadi
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Remembering Saddam
North's documentary details the lives of a group of Iraqi men who were victims of Saddam Hussein's regime. All suffered brutal punishment, such as amputation of a hand and other scarring, inflicted for what the regime called "crimes." Some changed foreign currency illegally, some were merely politically opposed to the Baath party.
Tags: Iraq; Abu Ghraib prison; political prisoners; torture; documentary
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Reporting series on Abu Ghraib
This investigative series on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal reveals that the Bush administration knew about the interrogation methods being used. Breaking all rules of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration had declared as soon as the war on Iraq started that the conventions were not going to be adhered to. Backed by a paper trail of documents from the White House, these journalists revealed that the military personnel higher in the ranks, and not just the MP's were involved.
Tags: Abu Ghraib; Geneva Conventions; Bush; George W Bush; White House; White House sources; military; US military; torture during war; war crimes
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The Lynndie England Interview.
Lynndie England, an army private whose photograph symbolized the Abu Ghraib prison scandal interviewed with this CBS affiliated TV station for the first time. Excerpts from this interview made headlines and was aired in many other TV stations across the world. As England says in the interview, she was merely following orders by posing with and smiling at the prisoners.
Tags: Lynndie England; Abu Ghraib prison inmates; Aby Ghraib; interview with Lyndie England; Iraq
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Court Martial in Iraq; Abuse at Abu Ghraib
This investigation showed the photographs from the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the response from the Department of Defense, revealed the systematic breakdown in the handling of Iraqi detainees, and documented, through a soldier's video diary, the life of a soldier working in an Iraqi prison camp.
Tags: Abu Ghraib; US military; prison abuse; Iraq war; Defense Department