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Hersh Photographing Torture Was Itself

Juan Cole 05/10/2004

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Hersh: Photographing Torture Was itself a Form of Coercion

Journalist Seymour Hersh came out with several revelations concerning US torture of POWs on Sunday. He reveals the logic behind it, and says he has seen a picture of an Iraqi prisoner with a gaping hole in his leg where he was bitten by a military attack dog. I wonder if Rummy will consider that merely abuse, or will use the T word. When Rumsfeld warned us that worse pictures are coming, he spoke truly. One worries that somewhere there is a snuff film with a rape scene coming out of Abu Ghuraib.

On Wolf Blitzer on Sunday, Hersh said he thought that the photographs of the abuse and torture were themselves attempts to manipulate prisoners, since they were threatened with the revelation of their humiliation to friends and family.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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Hersh Photographing Torture Was Itself

Juan Cole 05/10/2004

Hersh: Photographing Torture Was itself a Form of Coercion

Journalist Seymour Hersh came out with several revelations concerning US torture of POWs on Sunday. He reveals the logic behind it, and says he has seen a picture of an Iraqi prisoner with a gaping hole in his leg where he was bitten by a military attack dog. I wonder if Rummy will consider that merely abuse, or will use the T word. When Rumsfeld warned us that worse pictures are coming, he spoke truly. One worries that somewhere there is a snuff film with a rape scene coming out of Abu Ghuraib.

On Wolf Blitzer on Sunday, Hersh said he thought that the photographs of the abuse and torture were themselves attempts to manipulate prisoners, since they were threatened with the revelation of their humiliation to friends and family.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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