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|description=Top level sanctioned torture on US prisoners, both to gather information about the effects of torture on victims and perpetrators as well as to intimidate and sew dragon's teeth.
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'''Prisoners were tortured and very possibly murdered (with those murders covered up)<ref>https://www.hrw.org/news/2005/05/20/afghanistan-killing-and-torture-us-predate-abu-ghraib</ref> in Abu Ghraib''',<ref>https://original.antiwar.com/news/2006/02/17/abu-ghraib-abuse-photos/</ref> with the approval of many more senior officials than were ever subjected to discipline for what went on. The pictures and stories that eventually made it to [[corporate media]] were a [[limited hangout]]; photographs of sexually tortured men leaked, but those of abused women are still classified for fear of greater outrage.<ref>https://www.arabnews.com/node/249910 saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20210517135230/https://www.arabnews.com/node/249910 Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.li/QrTie Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/20/iraq.gender</ref><ref>http://www.thehandstand.org/archive/september2006/articles/belfast.htm saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20230804150307/https://bellaciao.org/en/Iraqi-Women-and-Torture-Rapes-and-Rumors-of-Rape Archive.org]</ref>
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==Official narrative==
 
==Official narrative==
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These [[war crimes]] were confined to low level military, and were ''not'' officially sanctioned.
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These [[war crimes]] were confined to low-level military and were ''not'' officially sanctioned. These things happen in a [[war]].
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[[image:US_torture_flag.jpg|280px|left|thumbnail|''Negative Energy Plan'' by [[Robert Ponzio]]]]
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==Bigger picture==
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There seems to be little doubt that these [[war crime]]s were in fact sanctioned from the highest level, though through a sufficiently off-the-books mechanism to provide [[plausible deniability]] as and when the activies were exposed. The codeword '[[Copper Green]]' was used to refer to a systematic programme of abuse, [[torture]] and [[murder]], which may be a helpful lens through which to understand what was going on.
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===Narrative shaping===
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The pictures that were released<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170827033751/http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20656</ref> invariably showed the abuse of men and all media attention was focused on this fact and also to some extent, that the female soldier [[Lynndie England]] took part in the torture.
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[[Lila Rajiva]] has noted that the media has colluded with the [[Bush administration]] to relay a subtle message of women's empowerment with respect to L. England.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Language-Empire-Ghraib-American-Media/dp/1583671196</ref><ref>https://lilarajiva.wordpress.com/the-language-of-empire-abu-ghraib-and-the-american-media/ saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20070703173909/http://lilarajiva.wordpress.com/the-language-of-empire-abu-ghraib-and-the-american-media/ Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.is/17tr9 Archive.is]</ref>
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The rape and torture of women (and children) was completely excluded from any mention or discussion in the {{ccm}}.<ref>http://dissidentvoice.org/July2004/Rajiva0727.htm saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20040803044811/http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July2004/Rajiva0727.htm Archive.org]</ref><ref>http://dissidentvoice.org/July2004/Rajiva0730.htm saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20041019082447/http://dissidentvoice.org/July2004/Rajiva0730.htm Archive.org]</ref><ref>http://dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Rajiva0804.htm saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20040817005657/http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Rajiva0804.htm Archive.org]</ref><ref>http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Rajiva0809.htm saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20040817081945/http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Rajiva0809.htm Archive.org]</ref>
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|text=Debating about it, ummm ... Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib ... The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out.
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|source_URL=https://www.salon.com/2004/07/15/hersh_7/
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|date=July 15, 2004
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===Destructive research on Prisoners===
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See [[Operation Phoenix]] for an analogous research project carried out during the [[Vietnam War]]. This aimed to refine understanding of how much extreme torture people can stand and the various ways their bodies, minds and communities respond to it.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/693</ref>
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===Terrorisation of the Populace===
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[[Naomi Klein]] has argued on ''[[Unwelcome Guests]]'' that the events of Abu Ghraib were never intended to remain secret, but instead carried out in an effort to stiffen resistance by terrorising the local population.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Special:WhatLinksHere/Naomi_Klein</ref>
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===Dogs from Abu Ghraib===
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In her 2015 article: "Military Dogs & Child Rape",<ref>https://medium.com/@LoriHandrahan2/military-dogs-child-rape-81e46413ab81 saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20150722171927/https://medium.com/@LoriHandrahan2/military-dogs-child-rape-81e46413ab81 Archive.org] saved at [http://archive.is/3Uoz0 Archive.is]</ref> [[Lori Handrahan]] speculated that dogs, which were trained to rape prisoners, were taken back to the US and may ended up in the production of [[child porn]]. The use of dogs for humiliation is confirmed to have happened in Chile under the [[Pinochet]] regime.<ref>https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/2/7/torture-under-pinochet-we-were-peeling/ saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20110615161123/http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/2/7/torture-under-pinochet-we-were-peeling/ Archive.org] saved at [http://archive.is/gohJp Archive.is]</ref> Since research on torture does not get lost, only expands, it is, especially in societies were a strong feeling of shame can be produced by this, a reliable method to get people to do what is asked from them. It was, very likely, a method that was applied by the [[United States military]].<ref>https://www.alternet.org/2014/12/did-nato-dogs-rape-afghan-prisoners-bagram-air-base/</ref>
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===Dan Rather===
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The decision to publish some of the Abu Ghraib torture photos on the program ''[[60 Minutes]]''  might have contributed to the downfall of corporate journalist [[Dan Rather]]. He was set up with forged documents, sent to a mock internal trial, and fired from [[CBS]] in late [[2004]].
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Latest revision as of 15:04, 4 August 2023

Event.png Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse (war crime,  torture,  murder,  research,  Copper Green) Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
BuGhraibAbuse-standing-on-box.jpg
Exposed2004
Exposed bySeymour Hersh, Sam Provance
Interest ofCACI, Michael Hourigan, Lila Rajiva
DescriptionTop level sanctioned torture on US prisoners, both to gather information about the effects of torture on victims and perpetrators as well as to intimidate and sew dragon's teeth.

Prisoners were tortured and very possibly murdered (with those murders covered up)[1] in Abu Ghraib,[2] with the approval of many more senior officials than were ever subjected to discipline for what went on. The pictures and stories that eventually made it to corporate media were a limited hangout; photographs of sexually tortured men leaked, but those of abused women are still classified for fear of greater outrage.[3][4][5]

Official narrative

These war crimes were confined to low-level military and were not officially sanctioned. These things happen in a war.

Negative Energy Plan by Robert Ponzio

Bigger picture

There seems to be little doubt that these war crimes were in fact sanctioned from the highest level, though through a sufficiently off-the-books mechanism to provide plausible deniability as and when the activies were exposed. The codeword 'Copper Green' was used to refer to a systematic programme of abuse, torture and murder, which may be a helpful lens through which to understand what was going on.

Narrative shaping

The pictures that were released[6] invariably showed the abuse of men and all media attention was focused on this fact and also to some extent, that the female soldier Lynndie England took part in the torture.

Lila Rajiva has noted that the media has colluded with the Bush administration to relay a subtle message of women's empowerment with respect to L. England.[7][8]

The rape and torture of women (and children) was completely excluded from any mention or discussion in the commercially-controlled media.[9][10][11][12]

“Debating about it, ummm ... Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib ... The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out.”
Seymour Hersh (July 15, 2004)  [13]

Destructive research on Prisoners

See Operation Phoenix for an analogous research project carried out during the Vietnam War. This aimed to refine understanding of how much extreme torture people can stand and the various ways their bodies, minds and communities respond to it.[14]

Terrorisation of the Populace

Naomi Klein has argued on Unwelcome Guests that the events of Abu Ghraib were never intended to remain secret, but instead carried out in an effort to stiffen resistance by terrorising the local population.[15]

Dogs from Abu Ghraib

In her 2015 article: "Military Dogs & Child Rape",[16] Lori Handrahan speculated that dogs, which were trained to rape prisoners, were taken back to the US and may ended up in the production of child porn. The use of dogs for humiliation is confirmed to have happened in Chile under the Pinochet regime.[17] Since research on torture does not get lost, only expands, it is, especially in societies were a strong feeling of shame can be produced by this, a reliable method to get people to do what is asked from them. It was, very likely, a method that was applied by the United States military.[18]

Dan Rather

The decision to publish some of the Abu Ghraib torture photos on the program 60 Minutes might have contributed to the downfall of corporate journalist Dan Rather. He was set up with forged documents, sent to a mock internal trial, and fired from CBS in late 2004.


 

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File:A case to answer.pdfreport2008Amnesty InternationalAn Amnesty International report on the 40 month long detention and rendition of Khaled al-Maqtari, a 25 year old Saudi national at the time of his arrest in Fallujah, Iraq in January 2004.
File:Pictures That Missed the Exhibition.pdfarticle17 February 2006Lila RajivaFunny how freedom of expression - so indispensable for the survival of Western Civilization when it comes to inflammatory and dangerous anti-Muslim imagery - gets jettisoned in a hurry when it comes to exposing war crimes.
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References

  1. ↑ https://www.hrw.org/news/2005/05/20/afghanistan-killing-and-torture-us-predate-abu-ghraib
  2. ↑ https://original.antiwar.com/news/2006/02/17/abu-ghraib-abuse-photos/
  3. ↑ https://www.arabnews.com/node/249910 saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  4. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/may/20/iraq.gender
  5. ↑ http://www.thehandstand.org/archive/september2006/articles/belfast.htm saved at Archive.org
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170827033751/http://www.uruknet.info/?p=20656
  7. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Language-Empire-Ghraib-American-Media/dp/1583671196
  8. ↑ https://lilarajiva.wordpress.com/the-language-of-empire-abu-ghraib-and-the-american-media/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  9. ↑ http://dissidentvoice.org/July2004/Rajiva0727.htm saved at Archive.org
  10. ↑ http://dissidentvoice.org/July2004/Rajiva0730.htm saved at Archive.org
  11. ↑ http://dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Rajiva0804.htm saved at Archive.org
  12. ↑ http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug04/Rajiva0809.htm saved at Archive.org
  13. ↑ https://www.salon.com/2004/07/15/hersh_7/
  14. ↑ http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/693
  15. ↑ http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Special:WhatLinksHere/Naomi_Klein
  16. ↑ https://medium.com/@LoriHandrahan2/military-dogs-child-rape-81e46413ab81 saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  17. ↑ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/2/7/torture-under-pinochet-we-were-peeling/ saved at Archive.org saved at Archive.is
  18. ↑ https://www.alternet.org/2014/12/did-nato-dogs-rape-afghan-prisoners-bagram-air-base/
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