The Resource Torture and truth : America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror, Mark Danner
Torture and truth : America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror, Mark Danner
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- Summary
- "In the spring of 2004, graphic photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by American soldiers in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison flashed around the world, provoking outraged debate." "The images are shocking, but they do not tell the whole story. The abuses at Abu Ghraib were not isolated incidents but the result of a chain of deliberate decisions and failures of command. To understand how "Hooded Man" and "Leashed Man" could have happened, Mark Danner turns to the documents that are collected for the first time in this book." "These documents include secret government memos, some never before published, that portray a fierce argument within the Bush administration over whether al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners were protected by the Geneva Conventions and how far the US could go in interrogating them. There are also official reports on abuses at Abu Ghraib by the International Committee of the Red Cross, by US Army investigators, and by an independent panel chaired by former defense secretary James R. Schlesinger. In sifting this evidence, Danner traces the path by which harsh methods of interrogation approved for suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Guantanamo "migrated" to Iraq as resistance to the US occupation grew and US casualties mounted."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 580 pages
- Contents
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- Torture and truth
- Logic of torture
- Secret road to Abu Ghraib
- Iraq: the new war
- Delusions in Baghdad
- Isbn
- 9781590171523
- Label
- Torture and truth : America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror
- Title
- Torture and truth
- Title remainder
- America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Danner
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the spring of 2004, graphic photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by American soldiers in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison flashed around the world, provoking outraged debate." "The images are shocking, but they do not tell the whole story. The abuses at Abu Ghraib were not isolated incidents but the result of a chain of deliberate decisions and failures of command. To understand how "Hooded Man" and "Leashed Man" could have happened, Mark Danner turns to the documents that are collected for the first time in this book." "These documents include secret government memos, some never before published, that portray a fierce argument within the Bush administration over whether al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners were protected by the Geneva Conventions and how far the US could go in interrogating them. There are also official reports on abuses at Abu Ghraib by the International Committee of the Red Cross, by US Army investigators, and by an independent panel chaired by former defense secretary James R. Schlesinger. In sifting this evidence, Danner traces the path by which harsh methods of interrogation approved for suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Guantanamo "migrated" to Iraq as resistance to the US occupation grew and US casualties mounted."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Danner, Mark
- Dewey number
- 956.7044/37
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- DS79.76
- LC item number
- .D36 2004
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- 956.7044 D188t
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Abu Ghraib Prison
- Abu Ghraib Prison
- Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- Torture
- Political prisoners
- Atrocities
- Political prisoners
- Torture
- Iraq
- Label
- Torture and truth : America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror, Mark Danner
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Torture and truth
- Logic of torture
- Secret road to Abu Ghraib
- Iraq: the new war
- Delusions in Baghdad
- Control code
- ocm56590643
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 580 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590171523
- Lccn
- 2004022408
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- color illustrations
- Label
- Torture and truth : America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror, Mark Danner
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Torture and truth
- Logic of torture
- Secret road to Abu Ghraib
- Iraq: the new war
- Delusions in Baghdad
- Control code
- ocm56590643
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 580 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590171523
- Lccn
- 2004022408
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- unmediated
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