... men and women, laughing and giving thumbs-up signs while posing with Iraqi prisoners, some made to stand naked, stacked in a pyramid, some positioned to perform sex acts, and some were dead. There was one picture that illustrated an Iraqi standing on a box with his head covered, and wires attached to his hands. Two Muslim detainees at Abu Ghraib recalled their torture to a court marshal, saying that they were force-fed pork and alcohol, against Islamic law, and that they were forced to masturbate in public and piled onto a pyramid of naked men. The detainees recalled, "They were torturing us as though it was theatre for them." "This changed the perspective on all Americans. Even Saddam did not do this to us." Ultimately, soldiers were beating prisoners, forcing them to strip, masturbate, threatening them with dogs, smearing feces on them, and forcing them into degrading, humiliating, and stressful ...

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