More links:

Torture at Abu Ghraib - As promised, Seymour Hersh does it again. A New Yorker article that everyone should read.

A diary of a civilian consultant, Joe Ryan, who worked as an interrogator at Abu Gharib. The diary is down, but Google's cache is still intact.

And next is a beautiful example of armchair activism, wherein blog readers uncover a few inconsistencies in the stories from CACI International. Check out the post at Billmon.org: An Iraq Prison Diary.

In case you wanted to know a little more one of the GIs behind those pictures, here are a few more tidbits about Lynndie England:

A simply pastoral depiction of her childhood, from The Muslim News:

England grew up in a trailer down a dirt road behind a saloon and a sheep farm in Fort Ashby, W.Va., a one-stoplight town about 13 miles south of Cumberland...

According to Sy Hersh's New Yorker article, Lyndie is pregnant, and has been reassigned to Fort Bragg. My best wishes to the lovely couple (yes, that's her fiancee in the photographs, wearing the latex gloves).

posted by Lorna Brown at 11:18 PM