May 16, 2008
A New View of Abu Ghraib
A book and film go beyond the photos
Of the myriad questions raised by the photographs from Abu Ghraib — Who took them? How did they circulate? Who was responsible? — the question of what they show never seemed to be at issue. They showed the torture of Iraqi detainees by American forces, didn't they?
The answer is more complicated, as Errol Morris reveals in Standard Operating Procedure, his new documentary about the images, and as he and Philip Gourevitch
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