Abu Ghraib

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Right Hook
The Iraq torture nightmare: Taranto says beheading video shows who's really evil; Sullivan says team Bush humiliated U.S. unforgivably; Brooks calls for a whole new plan; Coulter declares women "too vicious" for military.
In lockstep with the White House
Were the U.S. soldiers who "made it hell" for Iraqi prisoners simply following orders?
"The place is broken"
CIA veteran Bob Baer says torture was forbidden when he worked for the agency. "Now contractors are sent out to torture people to death and then hide it."
"Sometimes they pretended to kill me"
An Al-Jazeera cameraman detained and tortured at Abu Ghraib recalls beatings, threats and photos of torture victims used as screen savers on military PCs.
The Great Satan
Thanks to Bush's neocon cabal, the Arab world now hates the U.S. as much as it does Israel.
How could women do that?
Female soldiers were supposed to be a civilizing influence on the military. Then came Abu Ghraib.
Lack of protection
Long before Abu Ghraib, senior officers warned that Bush appointees in the Pentagon were undermining prisoner safeguards.
"Stress and duress"
Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth says America's use of coercive interrogation techniques inevitably leads to nightmares like Abu Ghraib.
Right Hook
Conservatives debate torture by the U.S. military in Iraq: Some call it "sickening" while others claim it could save lives. Plus: The clash of civilizaciones.
"Guantanamo on steroids"
Abu Ghraib was an infamous prison under Saddam. Now, for Iraqis seeking relatives detained by the U.S. military, it is still a place where men disappear.
A poet returns to hell
Hamid al Mokhtar wrote novels and poems. For this, he was imprisoned and tortured for eight years at the vast Abu Ghraib prison complex in Baghdad. Today, he goes back to the scene of his nightmares.
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