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Monday, December 1, 2008 12:00 AM

Sympathy for Charles Graner

No one from the Bush administration has been held accountable for torture. But the guard from Abu Ghraib prison is still behind bars, and his family wants to know why.

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 04:17 AM

    sympathy for the real victims?

    Perhaps Salon would care to complement this heart-rending tale with interviews and pictures with/of the family members (those who survive), including parents and cute kids, of those Iraqi detainees whose lives have been wrecked by what Graner and his colleagues submitted them to. Graner seemed to relish what he inflicted on those supposedly in his charge/care. To read that his parents saw the photos well before the story broke, and yet seemed to shrug rather than thinking of doing anything, contacting or protesting to anyone, beggars belief.

    Perhaps you might also care to carry an in-depth story on the vile overcrowded conditions in which the US-sponsored Iraqi government is holding and ill-treating, maybe torturing, many thousands of detainees, as highlighted recently on BBC TV.

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