The man under the hood in the infamous Abu Ghraib photograph talks about his ordeal
Meet the man who was under the hood, electrocuted and urinated upon by US forces at Abu Ghraib.pic.twitter.com/3FhVxJpwNB
Remember the famous photo of an Abu Ghraib prisoner being tortured? Middle East Eye interviewed the man in the picture. ‘Till today, I cannot have a bathtub in my bathroom because then I remember the water boarding.’https://twitter.com/middleeasteye/status/979049228470124545 …
Ali al-Qaisi still "can't see a bathtub in the bathroom because I remember waterboarding" -- ex-detainee at #AbuGhraib #Iraq #USMilitaryhttps://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/979049228470124545 …
Is there also a longer video or an article?
Don't know about MEE, but there's this profile we did with him in 2015.https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2015/11/27/inside-abu-ghraib-meeting-ali-shallal-al-qaisi …
"The pictures only show 5% of what happened to us." No one was held accountable. This is what American "democracy" does. These are American values. https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2015/11/27/inside-abu-ghraib-meeting-ali-shallal-al-qaisi …https://twitter.com/cjwerleman/status/979064527193976832 …
@chrislhayes And he did absolutely nothing wrong. https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2015/11/27/inside-abu-ghraib-meeting-ali-shallal-al-qaisi …pic.twitter.com/9wKynAPVFR
"My picture was published in a news article with my complaints. The Americans then raided my home and arrested me," he said.
https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2015/11/27/inside-abu-ghraib-meeting-ali-shallal-al-qaisi …
#UnitedStates #UnitedStatesCongress #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #USA #BernieSanders #Trump #Democracy #Iraq #Iraqi #MiddleEast
A dfficult watch but a reminder of the legacy that remains of the #Iraqwar #AbuGhraib #15yearshttps://twitter.com/middleeasteye/status/979049228470124545 …
Everybody needs to watch this and understand the physical + psychological trauma of #torture with absolute clarity. There has been little justice & accountability for #AbuGhraib and other detainee abuses, and #GinaHaspel was just nominated to lead the CIA despite her involvement.https://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/979049228470124545 …
Abu Ghraib: an American POW Camp near Baghdad where the torture that took place ACTUALLY galvanized a deadly Sunni/Shi’a alliance against U.S forces operating inside Iraq. Just one lesson in why torture doesn’t work.https://twitter.com/cjwerleman/status/979064527193976832 …
It's an abomination. PS. And yet here we are again with Gina Haspel - DDT’s CIA director pick.
Not truly, since the CIA had nothing to do with the tortures that went on at Abu Ghraib. That was a bunch of under-supervised sadists and dirtbags. Which does not mitigate the wrongs suffered by the detainees there, but Abu Ghraib does not link back to Gina Haspel.
Destruction of evidence. PS. Doesn't matter where torture takes place. The point is that torture is unacceptable no matter what.
Trump’s nominee to lead the CIA staunchly advocated for the destruction of tapes showing detainees being tortured, and obtained the legal opinions that were used to justify their destruction, @ByTomFrank reportshttps://www.buzzfeed.com/thomasfrank/all-the-bosses-in-the-bush-administration-wanted-the …
@SenJohnMcCain, pls don’t allow someone who was part of this run the CIA. I remember seeing the pictures but reading this poor man’s words is even worse than I imagined possible.https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2015/11/27/inside-abu-ghraib-meeting-ali-shallal-al-qaisi …
The man under the hood in #AbuGHraib prison, 15 years on. How can anyone forget such horrendous atrocities endured by thousands. #IraqWarhttps://twitter.com/MiddleEastEye/status/979049228470124545 …
My niece, whose grandparents are from Mosul, is 17 years old now. Imagine growing up, coming across this part of history, and knowing you'll never be able to visit a place of your heritage?
America did this.https://twitter.com/cjwerleman/status/979064527193976832 …
And how did we let it go unpunished? And how are we now promoting Gina Haspel who was responsible for torture and its cover up?https://twitter.com/bungarsargon/status/979389990730911744 …
We don't let Americans be held accountable for war crimes. So the least we owe our victims is to hear their stories and not look away.https://twitter.com/cjwerleman/status/979064527193976832 …
On March 20, 2003, a US-led coalition invaded Iraq launching "Operation Iraqi Freedom."https://twitter.com/i/moments/976180864404148224 …
ProPublica came clean about a report that Trump's CIA pick oversaw the waterboarding of a specific detainee. "This error was particularly unfortunate because it muddied an important national debate about Haspel and the CIA's recent history," they stated.https://twitter.com/i/moments/974756884321206273 …