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The Hooded Man (or The Man on the Box) [1] is an image showing a prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison with wires attached to his fingers, standing on a box with a covered head. The photo has been portrayed as an iconic photograph of the Iraq War, [1] "the defining image of the scandal" [2] [3] and "symbol of the torture at Abu Ghraib". [4]
Taguba supported United States President Barack Obama's decision not to release the photos, stating, "These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency." [ 54 ] Obama, who had initially agreed to release the photographs, changed his mind after lobbying from senior military figures; Obama stated that their release could put troops in ...
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/War Creator Ivan Frederick. Support as nominator – ― Howard • 🌽 33 12:02, 11 April 2024 (UTC) Oppose - "appears on no English wikipedia articles" makes it ineligible. --Janke | Talk 16:11, 11 April 2024 (UTC) Absolutely we should not promote the worse copy. Replace the image and then nominate.
Ali Shallal al-Qaisi (Arabic: علي شلال القیسي; born 6 August 1962) is an Iraqi civilian who was captured in United States custody during CIA interrogation and tortured at Abu Ghraib Prison in 2003.
In this clip, a hooded man approaches the woman wearing a hijab from behind with a loose concrete slab he had picked up from a garden wall in South Street, Dewsbury at 12.30pm. West Yorkshire ...
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
In the image below, the hooded figure can be seen in the bottom left corner of the middle panel. This provided photo shows the full triptych on display at West Point.
Hooding is the placing of a hood over the entire head of a prisoner. [1] Hooding is widely considered to be a form of torture; one legal scholar considers the hooding of prisoners to be a violation of international law, specifically the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions, which demand that persons under custody or physical control of enemy forces be treated humanely.