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BAGHDAD — Coalition forces detained 10 suspected terrorists during operations throughout central and northern Iraq early Monday. During an operation south of Samarra, Coalition forces captured a wanted individual believed to have ties to foreign terrorist senior leaders. Intelligence reports indicate the individual used his mosque to provide shelter for foreign terrorists and to operate an illegal court system. Coalition forces captured another wanted individual and detained three suspects during an operation south of Ad Dawr. The wanted individual reportedly has a long history of involvement in the foreign terrorist network and was involved in their movements throughout northern Iraq....

The Hooded Man from Abu Ghraib: The Rest of the Story by Laura Mansfield Do you remember this image? (See attached PDF file for image) The hooded man is Haj Ali al Qaisi. Haj Ali is known throughout the world because of this photograph showing him with a black hood over his head, standing on a box, with electric cords on his hands. The photo came to represent torture in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq at the hands of the American military. Haj Ali, who now lives in Jordan and heads a group called the "Organization of Victims of US...

Anti-Coalition Forces Shell Abu Ghurayb Prison CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq - At about 1:20 pm. April 20, Anti-Coalition forces fired 18 mortar rounds into the Abu Ghurayb prison, killing 22 detainees and wounding nearly 100 detainees. No Coalition forces were killed or wounded in this attack. Coalition officials expressed their deepest sympathies for the families who lost loved ones in this attack. The I Marine Expeditionary Force is assisting in the transportation and treatment of the wounded. Anti-Coalition forces have fired on the prison compound before, killing and wounding several inmates. These terrorists who repeatedly kill and maim Iraqi citizens...

A 20-year-old from the northeastern Minnesota town of Cloquet has become the third Minnesota Marine to die in Iraq this week and the seventh Minnesotan to die there since the war began. Lance Cpl. Levi Angell was killed Thursday in Abu Ghurayb, on the western outskirts of Baghdad and on the road to Fallujah when his Humvee was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, his family said Friday. Angell was also the third Marine from Carlton County to die in the Persian Gulf region in the past two months. He was the son of Loretta and Gordon angell, Jr. He was...

Task Force 1st Armored Division’s Third Brigade Combat Team soldiers and Iraqi Civil Defense Corps members wait to move to the next stack of apartments during Operation Bulldog. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Christopher Stanis More Photos Operation Bulldog Mammoth Strikes Insurgents Where they Live By U.S. Army Sgt. Christopher Stanis, 1AD PAO     ABU GHURAYB, Iraq — Task Force 1st Armored Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team from Fort Riley, Kan. conducted a brigade-sized cordon and search of an Abu Ghurayb apartment complex, northwest of Baghdad Dec. 4, making it one of the largest military operations since President George...

A huge mural just inside the gates of Abu Gharib Prison depicts a smiling Saddam Hussein and a row of black-hooded executioners. Bit redundant, that. The Iraqi president has been known to pull the trigger himself when in the mood for a spot of blood-letting or political avengement. But such was the frequency of formalized extermination under the Baath party regime that executioners were practically guaranteed tenure. Nowhere was the butchery more rife than Abu Gharib, a notorious penitentiary/gulag 40 kilometres west of the capital, and sprawling for miles behind thick stone walls along the main highway into town. It's...

Exposed: Secret and macabre world of jail where thousands were killed By Andrew Buncombe in Baghdad 14 April 2003 Wednesday was the day for killing and Thursday was the day relatives paid to collect the bodies of the dead. How prisoners were executed depended on an order from above – a bullet to the back of the head for those deemed to deserve a degree of mercy and the rope for those destined to suffer. On the morning of their deaths, prisoners were asked their permission to be killed: those who agreed first received a glass of water and a...