Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse event
also: torture of prisoners, tortures at Abu Ghraib
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Their news broke about the abuse of the Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib. Once a notorious prison and torture center during the rule of Saddam Hussein, it was then the word waterboarding as a method of torture became known. Also, there was new…
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An Iraqi mob shot and killed and mutilated four American civilians working as contractors for Blackwater. Now, I want to make sure you guys connect the dots. The CIA and other contractors were in Abu Ghraib prison torturing people, just lik…
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were used there. And it pissed off the local people. And the local people knew who was doing it. So four civilian contractors for Blackwater was killed. We saw horrifying scenes, the torching of bodies, dragging them through the streets. Th…
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That resulted in the death of at least 600 Iraqi civilians and over 200 insurgents, as well as 36 U.S. military people. In the weeks after Fallujah, the news surfaced that at least 22 of the interrogators accused of torture of the inmates i…
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It's just crazy. I mean, yeah, if anybody was paying attention when it happened. Yeah, I mean, it's just. But again, if you don't understand Operation Gladio and Operation Condor, Abu Ghraib sticks out as an anomaly. Right. Watching it. I w…
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Again, if you read the details, and there was some pretty gory details in the book, that torture that was done inside of that prison looks exactly like the torture that we described in Hidden Terrors. So for the American people, that's the …
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and accountability issues have not been resolved, followed by legislative proposals, no result. This is the pattern prior to Nassau Square. In May 2004, following the tortures at Abu Ghraib and the Fallujah disaster, she wrote a letter to P…
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There were wake-up calls before NYSERF Square, especially Fallujah and Abu Ghraib, but the gap between the companies and oversight was never closed. In 2004, everyone informed about it was certain there would be another incident, and unfort…
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However, it applied only to Department of Defense contractors, not State Department. For example, the civilian interrogators implicated in several of the cases at Abu Ghraib were on contract for the CIA, not the Department of Defense, and t…