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A U.S. Army interrogator offers an eyewitness account of the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, detailing his work as an interrogator, his battle between his mission and his own conscience, and his decision to publicly denounce the tactics used in Iraqi prisons.
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About the Author
Tony Lagouranis has appeared on Democracy Now, the PBS Frontline documentary "The Torture Question," and MSNBC's Hardball. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Allen Mikaelian is a doctoral fellow in history at American University and author of the New York Times bestseller Medal of Honor.
From Publishers Weekly
Written with bestselling military writer Allen Mikaelian, this is a developed version of a story widely available in the media and on the Internet. Lagouranis became a central figure to Iraq war opponents by describing his role as an army interrogator at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. Official policy may have stressed observing the Geneva Conventions, but in the field and out of sight, he says, the policy rapidly became "anything goes." "Fear up harsh" in principle meant verbally intimidating a prisoner, but came to include sleep deprivation, induced hypothermia and binding, with all levels of command complicit. Convinced such methods did not work and disturbed by his own behavior, Lagouranis felt "the feeble voice of my deeply suppressed morality trying to be heard." Increasingly identifying with prisoners, he began interpreting the war as corrupting and brutalizing of the institutions and individuals involved. On returning to the U.S., Lagouranis had intensifying stress reactions that prompted him to go public about the way the war had led him to "discover and indulge my own evil." To date, his moving account has been accepted rather than investigated [...] (June)
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- PublisherNAL Hardcover
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0451221125
- ISBN 13 9780451221124
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
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