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'Ghosts' still haunt: Images of abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison stirred Rory Kennedy to seek answers. Now her revealing documentary is out on DVD.

The Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA)

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Byline: Bruce Dancis

Jun. 4--The images burn like a scar on the moral face of America: naked Iraqi prisoners placed in humiliating positions by taunting American soldiers; a hooded Iraqi prisoner forced to stand on a box, arms spread wide, with electric wires attached to his hands; an Iraqi prisoner with both his arms and feet manacled to the bars of his jail cell.

These are the images from Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison that scandalized America and the world when they emerged in May 2004.

For documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy, those photographs produced more than anger and disgust. They inspired her to make a film about Abu Ghraib and the wider ...

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