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May 30, 2008

Abu Ghraib: The Dark Side of Democracy

by Sheila Johnston, Telegraph, UK - They were the photographs that shocked the world: the inmates of Abu Ghraib, taunted and tormented by gloating US soldiers. The images have been endlessly analysed and you might think that there is nothing new to say about them.But now two of the biggest guns in American documentary cinema have trained their sights on Abu Ghraib. And the affair is clearly far from over.

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