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When torture becomes standard: Standard Operating Procedure exposes the military's use of torture by quoting verbatim from prison personnel stationed at Abu Ghraib.
Standard Operating Procedure, by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris, New York: The Penguin Press, 2008, 286 pages, hardcover, $25.95.
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"You had stress positions," recalls one of the soldiers guarding the prisoners, "and you escalated the stress positions. Forced to stand for hours at a time ... hold bottles of water out to [their] sides ... handcuffs behind their backs, high up, in very uncomfortable positions, or chained down.... Then you had the submersion. You put the people in garbage cans, and you'd put ice in it, and water. Or stick them underneath the shower spigot naked, and open a window while it was like forty degrees ...
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