April 28, 2004Abu Ghraib Prison Photos
Lots of photographs surfaced depicting abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners held in US custody at the Baghdad Central Detention Center, also known as Abu Ghraib Prison. The United States Department of Defense removed seventeen soldiers and officers from duty, and eleven soldiers were charged with duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery. Between May 2004 and March 2006, eleven soldiers were convicted in courts-martial, sentenced to military prison, and dishonorably discharged from service for physically, sexually, and torture abuse. Two soldier’s specialist Charles Graner, and Lynndie England were sentenced to 10 years. The commanding officer of all Iraq Detention facilities, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski was demoted for negligence to Colonel. Karpinski denied knowledge of abuse saying that the interrogations were authorized by her superior and performed by subcontractors. And that she was not allowed to enter the interrogation room. The public soon learned of what had been known as the Torture memos, prepared in August 2002 before the Iraq invasion by the Office of Legal Counsel and US Department of Justice, which clearly authorized enhanced interrogation techniques (torture). In 2003 the deputy in the OLC said that federal laws on use of torture did not apply to American interrogators overseas.
Lots of photographs surfaced depicting abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners held in US custody at the Baghdad Central Detention Center, also known as Abu Ghraib Prison. The United States Department of Defense removed seventeen soldiers and officers from duty, and eleven soldiers were charged with duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery. Between May 2004 and March 2006, eleven soldiers were convicted in courts-martial, sentenced to military prison, and dishonorably discharged from service for physically, sexually, and torture abuse. Two soldier’s specialist Charles Graner, and Lynndie England were sentenced to 10 years. The commanding officer of all Iraq Detention facilities, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski was demoted for negligence to Colonel. Karpinski denied knowledge of abuse saying that the interrogations were authorized by her superior and performed by subcontractors. And that she was not allowed to enter the interrogation room. The public soon learned of what had been known as the Torture memos, prepared in August 2002 before the Iraq invasion by the Office of Legal Counsel and US Department of Justice, which clearly authorized enhanced interrogation techniques (torture). In 2003 the deputy in the OLC said that federal laws on use of torture did not apply to American interrogators overseas.
Prisoner being interrogated at the Abu Ghraib prison being threatened by a police dog