Lifting the Hood - Iraq

November 2005
As the 'hooded man' in the infamous Abu Ghraib pictures, Haj Ali became an icon of everything that was wrong with the US occupation. He tells his story and we hear from other prisoners

"They stretched my hands in this position and attached the wires to them", states Haj Ali. "It felt like my eyes were popping out. I couldn't stand it." He spent three months being physically and psychologically tortured at Abu Ghraib. Interrogators wanted him to use his knowledge as a community leader to inform on other people. "They said 'give us the name of anyone you hate and we'll see it as co-operation and help you.'" In a nearby cell, army general Abu Maan was also being interrogated. "They stripped me and took photos of me in degrading positions", he recalls. Both men are angry that only junior officers have been disciplined for the abuse that went on at Abu Ghraib. Ilham al-Jumaili's husband Munadel was tortured to death there. It's his corpse that Sabrina Harman was photographed gloating over. "We didn't expect America to take Munadel and never return him", she laments. The victims of Abu Ghraib remain haunted by their experiences. In the words of Haj Ali "Only one thing has changed. The cameras have now disappeared The abuse still continues."

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[StrongerThanYsterday]

omg i wanna cry !! WTF with US government and soldiers R they Humans like us ??!!

americans must be ashamed of that ! U MUST WAKE UP AMERICANS ..STOP BEING A JOKE WITH NO BRAINS !! 

[gallantgourmet1960]

American people in general are just like all of us. They love, hurt, laugh, cry, (ok, they tend to do it all louder than the rest of us) but unfortunately have a political system that tends to fail in terms of being represented by sound and sane individuals. The Iraq war was planned, pre-determined, financed, and executed by an idiotic regime that will be long remembered for reasons that will baffle those of intelligence and feed those of sceptism.

[Nrodful]

And when you say USA is stupid, dumb or whatever, also tell me what smart, great and accomplished country your from so I can go in the history book and see what your great country has accomplished and giving this world in the last 200 years or so.

[Nrodful]

We should of cut off his head instead and put on pay per view. And you idiots complaining if you're not from the USA mind your business, what you think really does not matter, worry about your own affairs. You guys make no sense, here in USA we control EVERYTHING that matter and will keep like that, if that makes USA a joke then I wanna be a comedian. You make no sense calling someone winning a race slow. Look around, we control everything. Yea we are dumb like a fox.

[99XM]

Nnigga america is an iluminati evil country.

[ynos777]

Alll are same evil USA or middle east,



[BeatsByWeight]

@99XM Caps lock is cruise control for cool

[99XM]

@BeatsByWeight NO YOUR GOVERNMENT IS ILL MY FRIEND, LET JERKS TORTURE HUMANA BEINGS.

ARREST THEM WITHOUT ANY COURT DECISION. YOU ARE NOT A DEMOCARTIC COUNTRY, YOU ARE A ILUMINATI COUNTRY FULL OF CLOWNS.

YOU HAVE CONCENTRATION CAMPS.YOU ARE NOT DIFERENT FROM HITLER.

[99XM]

OOCULTIST CLUBS, EVEN JESUS TALK ABOUT THEM.

THE WORST!

THEY RULE NIGGA AMERICA.

[utility59]

@kdavidmcd Please move to any country you wish to be "free". 

[utility59]

Yes, they should make love to all the terrorists so they want to get caught.

[wwwtotalitaerde]

@nonwo10 Here, in the German Land (state) of Baden Württemberg the ruling CDU was voted out of office 10 months ago. After being in power for 58 years.

We now have a green prime minister and the torture situation has considerably improved, even as in my case torture is done by the BND, which takes its orders from the German government in Berlin, still under CDU control

Its still not being perfect, but the improvement is remarcable.