New Yorker: Abu Ghraib abuses were ‘de facto U.S. policy’

Sabrina Harmon poses with a torture victim packed in ice.

Sabrina Harmon became famous as the attractive, young army reservist who ended up in Abu Ghraib posing in photos with dead torture victims. Harmon and fellow U.S. military personnel were charged with numerous counts of humiliating and abusive treatment of Iraqi detainees, though few were convicted.

In the latest issue of the New Yorker, Harmon attempts redemption by giving tell-all interviews, which can be seen in a series of videos.

Charges against her, related to the al-Jamadi photographs were thrown out, as were the charges against the CIA interrogator (torturer) who caused the death of the torture victim in the above photograph.

Does torturing people to death, then incinerating them in ovens, sound familiar?

Some of the most iconic images of the Iraq war came not from photojournalists on the front lines, but US soldiers carrying point-and-shoot digital cameras. In its latest issue, the New Yorker profiles the woman who snapped many of the photos depicting abuse at Abu Ghraib prison that the same magazine revealed nearly four years ago.

Like many of the soldiers in charge of the detained Iraqis at Abu Ghraib, Sabrina Harman had little experience running a prison. As Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris report, she and others in her Army Reserve unit didn’t stick out at the prison, “where almost nothing was run according to military doctrine….

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