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It was like 148 degrees(58 C) or so there and it was all concrete.
Abu Ghraib also had the infamous torture chambers and stuff left from Saddam's era.
I remember walking through those and seeing like fingernail marks on the walls,
And bloodstains, and guillotines and stuff like that.
It was a pretty surreal feeling.
We went to Abu Ghraib, I believe in July. July or August of 2003 to start that prison.
[PFC. Damien Corsetti, Mil-Intel, Bagram & Abu Ghraib] You put people in crazy situations, and people do crazy things.
And Abu was getting mortared every night.
These 120 mm. mortars killing prisoners.
The first time that happened, they should have evacuated those prisoners to somewhere else,
Because the prisoners weren't safe.
[SGT. Ken Davis, 372nd MP Company, Abu Ghraib] People were being told to rough up Iraqis that wouldn't cooperate.
We were also told that they were nothing but dogs.
Then, all of a sudden, you start looking at these people as less than human.
And you start doing things to them you would never dream of.
And that's where it got scary.
[US Chief of Staff, Richard Myers] It was only the night shift. There's always a few bad apples.
[Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense] It's been a body blow for all of us.
[Lt. General Ricardo S. Sanchez] This is clearly an isolated incident.
[General Geoffrey D. Miller] The conduct of a very, very small number of our leaders and soldiers.
In the wake of media attention surrounding Abu Ghraib,
the military began a series of investigations.
[Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Abu Ghraib, 2004] The people who engaged in abuses will be brought to justice.
The world will see how a free system, a democratic system,
functions and operates transparently with no cover-ups.
[Rear Admiral John Hutson, (ret) Judge Advocate General] The Secretary and others have said,
"Well, you know, we've conducted 12 investigations"...
Each and all of which were geared to looking downward,
Down toward Lynndie England and Graner, and not looking up.
The soldiers in the photos are military police, or MPs, whose job it was to guard and protect the prisoners.
In their statements, the MPs claimed that Mil-Intel, or MI,
Ordered them to weaken, humiliate, and break the prisoners for interrogation purposes.
[SPC. Tony Lagouranis, Mil-Intel, Iraq] Obviously, you know, what they were doing, in those pictures,
was not sanctioned by the Interrogation Rules of Engagement.
And they weren't interrogators. So yes, I did think that they were bad apples.
However, I also think that they were taking cues from Intel.
[SGT. Ken Davis, 372nd MP Company, Abu Ghraib] This reading report said it was happening in Afgan.
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