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    personal dignity‚ and humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib). This law was set in place in order to protect human rights. The government claimed that this law does not apply to Al-Qaida‚ because they did not sign this contract when it was written‚ but not every single one of those Iraqis are affiliated with

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    was during the era of Saddam Hussein at Abu Ghraib‚ a U.S. military prison located right outside of Baghdad. There have been studies conducted and experiments performed in the attempt of a better understanding of the despicable actions of our fellow citizens. The Stanford Prison Experiment‚ conducted by Phillip G. Zimbardo‚ is one similar to the Abu Ghraib case. While it was merely a mock experiment‚ the results closely parallel to those in the Abu Ghraib prison. Each individual person in

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    psychological sensation of panic‚ fear and loss of control[1]”) and homicide of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib become known to the public eye. The acts were committed by members of the United States Army along with members of the United States governmental agencies. As shown in the Taguba Report (“report on alleged abuse of prisoners by members of the 800th Military Police Brigade at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad[2])‚

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    Abu Ghraib and Insaniyat Article by: Arshin Adib-Moghaddam “We have met the enemy‚ and he is us” Iraq is a different world than where we live in North America. Canadian values and culture of North America are vastly different from those of the Middle Eastern country that is the subject of an-article by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam titled Abu Gharib and Insaniyat. Following the terrorist attacks in New York in 2001 the differences between these two cultures seemed immense. The stories and images

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    ABU GHRAIB - A Coverage Comparison & Analysis CNN (Western Media) vs. al Jazeera On Wednesday‚ April 28‚ 2004‚ a series of pictures broadcast on CBV “60 Minutes II” prompted an worldwide media frenzy that challenged America’s so-called moral superiority‚ complicated the fight against terror in the Middle East‚ crippled U.S. relations with the international community and elicited public demands for high-level accountability. The physical‚ psychological and sexual abuse‚ including torture‚ rape

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    Abu Ghraib Throughout the beginning months of 2004‚ one of the largest military scandals in U.S. history became the center of worldwide controversy. It has been said that the degrading acts by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib were responsible for the suffering of innocent Iraqi civilians‚ the humiliation of the world’s strongest defense‚ and for negatively affecting the United States’ reputation in the world overall. Abu Ghraib‚ located 20 miles west of Baghdad‚ originally was one of the world’s

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    El e c t r on i c Ha llw a y ® Case Teaching Resources FROM THE EVANS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS T he Box 353060 · University of Washington · Seattle WA 98195 -3060 www.hallway.org DONALD RUMSFELD AND PRISONER ABUSE AT ABU GHRAIB Facing the Senate Armed Services Committees on May 7‚ 2004‚ Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld responded to the question of whether he would resign over the recently exposed prisoner abuse allegations in Iraq: “Needless to say‚ if I felt I could not be

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    The Abu Ghraib prison scandal shocked the whole nation into disbelief that our United State’s army can do such a thing. In Marianne Szegedy-Maszak’s‚ The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism‚ explains the rough conditions and new situations these young soldiers were faced. The Abu Graib prison shared many traits needed to make our everyday human beings in to a torturer. But‚ what would it take for me and you to act out such a horrific ordeal? Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram created an

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    Working in the office of Abu Ghraib had me bored out of my mind. The rest of my MP unit were stationed as guards‚ but I was holed up with computers and spreadsheets and phone calls. The best thing was looking out of a small window into the vast desert. I could see my insignificance roll out into the horizon. I had always wanted to send this feeling back home so that Bernadette could have a taste of what I was experiencing. Graner and Sabrina were the photo buffs back at Abu Ghraib. I

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    How does ‘Lyndiee England at Abu Ghraib’ help us to understand why good people to bad things? Lyndiee‚ before being posted in Iraq‚ was an innocent soldier or a ‘good person’. However‚ when she tortured the prisoners in Abu Ghraib to the extent the actions were deemed to be an example of dehumanisation‚ she was labelled a bad person by society. When I watched the video I became aware that she was still a good person but she had just done bad things because of the situation she was in and

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