Once You're Hooked, You Can't Escape
October, 2005
From a Deposition by Brigadier General Janis Karpinski about alleged abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, which she oversaw for five months:Q: Did any of your MPs tell you about any of these issues, such as naked detainees in the cells?A: The MPs would sometimes say that a prisoner went on a hunger strike but that it lasted only a day before he heard the rattle of the MREs [meals ready to eat] and decided instead to take his clothes off. The MPs took them away so he wouldn't hang himself but...
