Abu Ghraib: a disgrace and a calamity

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HADANI DITMARS
June 21, 2008

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
By Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris
Penguin Press, 286 pages, $28.50

... In those early days of the occupation, I had gone back to see how things had fared in the "new Iraq." To my surprise, I found the old prison doctor, a former Baathist official who seemed to know an awful lot of detail about torture and executions under the old regime, and who had been rehired by the Americans at three times the salary. But when I tried to probe further about his involvement in the bad old days, he offered the standard "I have no information," and, "I just did my job and left. I know nothing" ...

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