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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]
What was shown in the Wikileaks video only begins to depict the suffering we have created. From our own experiences, and the experiences of other veterans we have talked to, we know that the acts depicted in this video are everyday occurrences of this war: this is the nature of how U.S.-led wars are carried out in this region.
The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, [84] [85] was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition , which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein .
Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004) Voices of Iraq (2004) War Feels Like War (2004) War with Iraq: Stories from the Front (2004) We Iraqis (2004) Alpha Company: Iraq Diary (2005) American Soldiers (2005) Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Hope (2005) [2] The Dreams of Sparrows (2005) Gunner Palace (2005) In the Shadow of the Palms (2005) Iraqi War ...
The Iraqi conflict is a series of violent events that began with the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq and deposition of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, followed by the War in Iraq, an armed conflict between Iraq and its allies and the Islamic State.
Over the years, the agency’s analytic corps absorbed the failures surrounding 9/11 and the “debacle” of the Iraq War, said Asher, the former CIA analyst. In fact, studying how the CIA went ...
On 12 June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) summarily executed between 1,095 and 1,700 [2] Iraqi cadets near Tikrit.The killings took place during ISIL's Northern Iraq offensive, when the cadets were captured outside of Camp Speicher during their attempt to flee from the area.
The Iraq War left the entire region in shambles, creating a power vacuum that resulted in the rise of ISIS, or the Islamic State, which has established a totalitarian "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria ...