Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Alfred McCoy:
There is no such thing as a little bit of torture.

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The U.S. Military has not released the total number of deaths that occurred at Abu Ghraib.

[Unidentified Iraqi Prisoner]:
[Speaking Arabic, translated to English Screen Text] The most painful thing for the inmates there, were the cries of the people being tortured. One day, they brought sheets to cover the cell... [pause]... in order for no one to see anything. They began torturing one of them and we could hear what was happening. We listened as his soul cracked. The sound of his voice really twisted our minds and made our hearts stop. We later learned that this man was Manadel al-Jamadi.

Scott Horton:
We have one clear case of someone who appears to have been tortured to death at Abu Ghraib; Who was delivered. He was kept in ice. He was a ghost detainee; investigations conducted about this tying this death to as I recall Navy Seals and also CIA personnel. There seems to have been a policy decision not to prosecute homicides that resulted from this highly abusive conduct.

Sabrina Harmann:
[holding a large photo of herself smiling with a "thumbs up" gesture in front of the face of a recently deceased prisoner in a body bag] We came to the prison and we were told that a prisoner just died. And he died of a heart attack in the shower and that was they weren't going to come pick him up right away because they didn't have any means and that he was in a body bag. So, of course, Sergeant Frederick and me, we like, OK, it's just a dead body right. He died of a heart attack. So we went in. I believe Corporal Grainer took the photo of me. It was just a dead guy. It was suppose to be just a dead guy. We didn't realize until after these photos that he was bleeding in places that you wouldn't bleed from getting a heart attack. Well - the thumbs up I got that from the little kids. The smile I always smile for the camera. It's the natural thing you do in front of a camera. It really wasn't anything negative towards this guy. Like I didn't know he was just murdered. I thought its just war - another dead guy. No big deal.

Ken Davis:
CIA put him on ice and they were going to try to get him out on a stretcher with I.V.'s to cover up a murder. But has anyone been brought to trial for that; No. But Grainer and Sabrina were charged with those pictures. That to me is ridiculous. We won't charge the murderer even though it was ruled a homicide but we'll charge you for taking pictures and exposing that a murder happened here. I don't understand.

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In 1961, and experiment was conducted by Dr. Stanly Milgram a psychologist at Yale University. [Fade]

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Participants responded to a newspaper advertisement. [Fade]

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The purpose of their 'obedience study" was to observe an individual's willingness to inflict pain when ordered to do so. [Fade]

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The participants did not know that the "victim" was an actor and that the shocks were not real. [Fade]

Research Subject #2:
...who's going to take responsibility if anything happens to him?

Researcher:
I'm going to take responsibility. Please continue.

Victim:
[screams off camera]

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All of the subjects administered shocks. The majority did so at the maximum level: 450 volts.

Rear Admiral John Hutson:
There is no such thing as a little bit of torture.