Story of Abu Gharaib During Iraq war, United State Army

From late 2003 to early 2004, during the Iraq War, military and the police personnel of the "United States Army" and the "Central Intelligence Agency" committed human rights violations against the "unjustly held" prisoners at Abu Gharaib Prison. They physically and sexually abused, tortured, raped, sodomized and killed muslim prisoners.

Male prisoners were stripped naked and forced to wear women's panties. Beatings and death threats were common. Prisoners were forced to crawl on their hands and knees and bark like dogs. They were also menaced and attacked with dogs. They were then taken to flooded cells and forced to sleep on the floor without mattresses. Food was thrown in dirty toilets and they were forced to eat it. Some prisoners were made to curse Islam and force-fed pork and alcohol during the holy month of Ramadan.

One detainee was repeatedly beaten on his broken leg until he denounced Islam. He was then ordered to thank Jesus that he was still alive. When he protested that he believed in Allah, one of his captors told him, "but I believe in torture and I will torture you."

Men were forced to masturbate in groups while soldiers, including women, laughed and took photos. At least one detainee, a teenage boy, was raped by an Army translator while a female soldier took photos. This was detailed in General Antonio Taguba's scathing report on Abu Ghraib, which concluded that the majority of Abu Ghraib prisoners-- the Red Cross said 70 to 90 percent-- were innocent.

"The Christian in me says its wrong," Graner said about torturing prisoners. "But the corrections officer in me says 'I love making a grown man piss himself.'" - Charles Graner(one of the guards)

Soldiers threatened to rape detainee's wives. They allegedly did more than just threaten. There were women and girls imprisoned in Abu Ghraib, held as bargaining chips in a bid to induce wanted insurgents to surrender. Jailing wives, daughters and mothers was, like so much of the other abuse at Abu Ghraib and throughout the War on Terror, a clear violation of US and international law, but US officials openly admitted to doing it.

The innocent women were also brutalized in other ways. One was dragged around by her hair. Another was urinated on and forced to eat from a dirty toilet. And elderly woman was ridden around like a donkey while being verbally abused. Yet another was thrown into a cell with the the bloody corpse of her murdered son, one of at least 34 detainees who died in US custody at the prison. Nearly half the deaths were officially listed as homicides.