During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in Abu Ghr
Known as The Hooded Man, this picture of Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh being tortured became an internationally famous symbol of the torture at Abu Ghraib and was featured on the cover of The Economist (see § Media coverage).
Lynndie England holding a leash attached to a naked male prisoner, known to the guards as "Gus"
Sergeant Smith, a dog handler, uses a dog to scare a bound prisoner.
Sergeant Frederick interrogates a detainee chained to his cell wall in a stress position.
Charles A. Graner Jr. is an American former soldier and corrections officer who was court-martialed for prisoner abuse after the 2003–2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. Along with other soldiers
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
…military prison, and dishonorably discharged from service. Two soldiers, found to have perpetrated many of the worst offenses at the prison, Specialist Charles Graner and PFC Lynndie England, were subject to more severe charges and received harsher sentences. Graner was convicted of assault, battery, conspiracy…
Graner posing over the body of Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner who was tortured to death during interrogation in Abu Ghraib prison in November 2003
The picture of Abdou Hussain Saad Faleh which prompted the investigation
Graner and Lynndie England posing with Iraqi detainees placed into a human pyramid.
Graner poses over the dead body of Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner.