Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
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| Date | March 2003 - ? |
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| Exposed by | Seymour Hersh, Sam Provance |
| Interest of | CACI, Ian Fishback, Michael Hourigan, Lila Rajiva |
| 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. |
Contents
Official narrative
These war crimes were confined to low level military, and were not officially sanctioned.
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.
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.[1]
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.[2]
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Niyirah al-Sabah’s Story | article | 28 August 2011 | Sandra Barr | Niyirah al-Sabah presenting her lies about Saddam Hussein's troops taking babies out of incubators that led to the Iraq War and Iman al-Obeidi claiming she was gang-raped by Muammar Gaddafi's forces justifying the 2011 Attacks on Libya |
| File:A case to answer.pdf | report | 2008 | Amnesty International | An 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.pdf | article | 17 February 2006 | Lila Rajiva | Funny 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. |
