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Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War
Carroll & Graf
April 2007
On Sale: April 20, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0786717769
EAN: 9780786717767
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In April 2004, the Abu Ghraib photographs set off an
international scandal. Yet until now, the full story has
never been told. Tara McKelvey — the first U.S.journalist to
speak with female prisoners from Abu Ghraib — traveled to
the Middle East and across the United States to seek out
victims and perpetrators. McKelvey tells how soldiers,
acting in an atmosphere that encouraged abuse and sadism,
were unleashed on a prison population of which the vast
majority, according to army documents, were innocent civilians.
Drawing upon critical sources, she discloses a series of
explosive revelations: An exclusive jailhouse interview with
Lynndie England connects the Abu Ghraib pictures to lewd
vacation photos taken by England's boyfriend Charles Graner;
formerly undisclosed videotapes show soldiers "Robotripping"
on cocktails of over-the-counter drugs while pretending to
stab detainees; new material sheds light on accusations
against an American suspected of raping an Iraqi child; and
first-hand accounts suggest the use of high-voltage devises,
sexual humiliation and pharmaceutical drugs on Iraqi
prisoners. She also provides an inside look at Justice
Department theories of presidential power to show how the
many abuses were licensed by the government.
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