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Fun with Torture

This is a cartoon (right) from a briefing by the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center (JIDC) at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq. It was, I believe, reproduced in a classified annex to the Taguba report.

This isn’t really related to arms control, but I am finding it hard to blog about anything else really.

I am reminded of Sam Keen’s book, Faces of the Enemy. I mean, smiley faces?

A fellow blogger noticed this document, which has another very creepy description of the detainees as “guests.”

Late Update: Just to keep things gimly current, a detainee in Iraq died in U.S. custody—apparently of natural causes. I wonder what the animation for that looks like.

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Jeffrey Lewis

Writing on ACW 2004–2026

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis is the founding publisher of Arms Control Wonk.com. He is the Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. His also a non-resident affiliate at Stanford's Center for Security and International Cooperation and a Contributing Editor to Survival.

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