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npr.org - 12/16/2008

The Death of an Iraqi Prisoner

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John McChesney All Things Considered , October 27, 2005 Photographs of grinning GIs crouched over the iced-down, battered corpse of Manadel al-Jamadi were among the most horrific images of the 2003 Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The photos became one of the most powerful symbols for those who ...

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mensjournal.com - 12/11/2008

CNN’s Prisoner of War

— mensjournal.com — He had been hunted, kidnapped, and told he was filming his own execution. But CNN correspondent Michael... Ware had no plans to leave Iraq. Now, it won’t leave him. (more) CNN’s Prisoner of War

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Thinking About Torture
Ross Douthat — ... shoving and shaking," or the use of heat and cold to elicit information. After all, there was a war on! I just had no idea - until the pictures came out of Abu Ghraib, and really until I started reading detailed accounts of how detainees were being treated - what these methods could mean in practice, and especially as practiced on a global scale. A term like "stress positions" sounds like one thing when it's sitting, bloodless, on a page; it sounds like something else when somebody dies from it. ...

12/17: Caroline And The Netroots
Blogometer — ... shoving and shaking,' or the use of heat and cold to elicit information. After all, there was a war on! I just had no idea -- until the pictures came out of Abu Ghraib, and really until I started reading detailed accounts of how detainees were being treated -- what these methods could mean in practice, and especially as practiced on a global scale. A term like 'stress positions' sounds like one thing when it's sitting, bloodless, on a page; it sounds like something else when somebody dies from it . Now obviously what ...