The Ultimate Casualty
You know him well. His nickname was Gilligan, and he was a prisoner at Abu Ghraib, Saddam Hussein's vast prison transformed into a vast American one and then transformed again by the Bush administration into a vast national disgrace. Gilligan was deprived of sleep, forced to stand on a small box, hooded like some medieval apparition, wired like a makeshift lamp and told (falsely) that if he fell he would be electrocuted. He was later released. Wrong man. Sorry.
The story of Gilligan is recounted in a forthcoming book and movie, both titled "Standard Operating Procedure" because that is precisely what the abuse of prisoners was at Abu Ghraib.… Seguir leyendo »