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Symbol of Abu Ghraib Seeks to Spare Others His Nightmare

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Posted on Mar 11, 2006
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Ali Shalal Qaissi in Amman, Jordan, with a picture of himself standing atop a box and attached to electrical wires in Abu Ghraib.

N.Y. Times: AMMAN, Jordan, March 8—Almost two years later, Ali Shalal Qaissi’s wounds are still raw.

There is the mangled hand, an old injury that became infected by the shackles chafing his skin. There is the slight limp, made worse by days tied in uncomfortable positions. And most of all, there are the nightmares of his nearly six-month ordeal at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003 and 2004.

Mr. Qaissi, 43, was prisoner 151716 of Cellblock 1A. The picture of him standing hooded atop a cardboard box, attached to electrical wires with his arms stretched wide in an eerily prophetic pose, became the indelible symbol of the torture at Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad. [The American military said Thursday that it would abandon the prison and turn it over to the Iraqi government.]

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By clifford, March 12, 2006 at 7:08 pm #
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how sad and pathetic amid such deep evil.

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By felicity smith, March 11, 2006 at 6:10 pm #
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How interesting that the American military invokes the Geneva Convention in their refusal to identify a prisoner or reveal why he was being held.  At least this administration of crooks and liars is consistent - consistently selective that is.  Their leader, recall, branded bare butts of pledges to his fraternity with a red-hot metal coat hanger and rationalized it declaring that it was no worse than a cigarette burn. Everything, it would seem, is rationalizeable, especially to a madman.

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