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 most notorious prisons during Saddam Hussein's time in power. "Men and women were jam-packed into the facility where weekly executions, torture, and terrible living conditions took place. In April of 2003, the prison complex was totally stripped and rehabilitated by the coalition authorities. The prison was retiled, and given new toilets, showers, and a new medical center was added" (Hersh 42).
The new compound was now under the coalition's control. By the fall, there were......
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