Abu Ghraib prison

The General’s Report

the ghost of Abu Ghraib: This faceless presence is Haj Ali, the ghost of Abu Ghraib. The man who was tortured and photographed in a sinister parody of the Statue of Liberty. Mayor of an Iraqi village, farmer and Imam of a mosque, unconnected to the Resistance, he was captured by the invaders on October 30, 2003, and tortured for months before being released in the first months of 2004. Today, he runs the Association of Victims of American Occupation Prisons in Amman (Jordan).

How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties.

Seymour M. Hersh
The New Yorker

June 25, 2007