Torture and truth : America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror

The Resource Torture and truth : America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror
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Torture and truth : America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror
Title remainder
America, Abu Ghraib, and the war on terror
Statement of responsibility
Mark Danner
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Subject
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
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

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