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The Hooded Man (or The Man on the Box) [1] is an image showing a prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison with wires attached to his fingers, standing on a box with a covered head. The photo has been portrayed as an iconic photograph of the Iraq War, [1] "the defining image of the scandal" [2] [3] and "symbol of the torture at Abu Ghraib". [4]
The Iraq War began in March 2003 as an invasion of Ba'athist Iraq by a force led by the United States. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] The Ba'athist government led by Saddam Hussein was toppled within a month. This conflict was followed by a longer phase of fighting in which an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi ...
Ali Shallal al-Qaisi (Arabic: علي شلال القیسي; born 6 August 1962) is an Iraqi civilian who was captured in United States custody during CIA interrogation and tortured at Abu Ghraib Prison in 2003.
A federal jury convicted a man on Friday on charges of torture and exporting weapons parts and services to Iraq, among other crimes.
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Apr 2024 at 12:02:05 (UTC). Original – A prisoner (Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh) at Abu Ghraib stands on a thin box, his head hooded and his fingers extended out and connected to wires.
The death toll in Iraq this year ranges from some 7,900 to 8,700 people so far, making 2013 the most deadly year for the country since 2008, according to IraqBodyCount.org, a U.K.-based website founded in 2003 and run by volunteers to record civilian deaths.
Occupation of Iraq Frederick sitting on an Iraqi detainee between two stretchers in Abu Ghraib prison Ivan " Chip " Frederick II (born 1966) is an American former soldier who was court-martialed for prisoner abuse after the 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.
Navy Cmdr. Steve Dundas, a chaplain, went to Iraq in 2007 bursting with zeal to help fulfill the Bush administration’s goal of creating a modern, democratic U.S. ally. “Seeing the devastation of Iraqi cities and towns, some of it caused by us, some by the insurgents and the civil war that we brought about, hit me to the core,” Dundas said.