TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB

From the archive

An Iraqi who was told he would be electrocuted if he fell off the box.

I am on vacation this week but thought it would be useful to republish a painful story I did two decades ago for the New Yorker about a group of US army soldiers who went out of control amid a war in Iraq that, so they were told, was being waged against the terrorism that struck Ameri…