“A Barely Discernible Horizon”

2020 ◽  
pp. 244-254
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Einboden
Keyword(s):  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Albert Gore ◽  
Smith County

This chapter details events that occurred in 1999, when Albert Gore Jr., standing on the steps of the Smith County courthouse in Carthage, Tennessee, began his run for president. The Carthage courthouse chosen by Gore for his announcement was not just a place of justice but also a former jail—the last known prison for two Muslim fugitives. Launching his bid to become President, Gore was standing in the same spot where a pair of Arabic authors had failed to win their own freedoms, despite the Qur’anic appeals dispatched to the sitting President in 1807. On the courthouse steps once climbed by these two captives, Gore welcomed an American millennium that was soon to be haunted by scandals of Muslim incarceration. Gazing into the unsearchable future, Gore stood where two forgotten “Mahometans” had been jailed in 1807, even as he greeted a century that would open with outrage over Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

Transnational injustice symbols and communities: The case of al-Qaeda and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 717-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Olesen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Set Up

The article identifies a political-cultural deficit in the expansive literature of the last 10–15 years on transnational activist communication. To illustrate the utility of a political-cultural sociological approach the article discusses how contemporary jihadist activists, and especially al-Qaeda, have actively transformed the Guantanamo Bay detention camp set up by the United States following the attacks of 9/11 into a transnational injustice symbol. Transnational injustice symbols are events and situations (both past and present) constructed and employed by political actors to condense and perform perceived injustices before geographically, socially and culturally dispersed audiences. Guantanamo Bay and other injustice symbols such as Palestine, Abu Ghraib and the Muhammad cartoons published in Denmark in 2005 are key elements in the creation of a transnational jihadist injustice community.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Michael L. Gross
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Military Medicine ◽  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Medical Experimentation ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Force Feeding ◽  
Military Medical Ethics

“Can military medicine be ethical?” is one question that may puzzle readers whose knowledge of medical ethics since 9/11 is colored by the prisons of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. To address these and other challenges, Military Medical Ethics in Contemporary Armed Conflict explores controversial topics that include preferential care for compatriot warfighters, force feeding detainees, weaponizing medicine to wage war, medical experimentation, and neural enhancement for warfighters. Less controversial but no less compelling concerns direct our attention to postwar justice: the duty to rebuild war-torn nations and the obligation to care for war-torn veterans.

Medical Ethics at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib: The Problem of Dual Loyalty

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 570-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Military Health ◽  
Guantanamo Bay

Although knowledge of torture and physical and psychological abuse was widespread at both the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and known to medical personnel, there was no official report before the January 2004 Army investigation of military health personnel reporting abuse, degradation, or signs of torture. Mounting information from many sources, including Pentagon documents, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, etc., indicate that medical personnel failed to maintain medical records, conduct routine medical examinations, provide proper care of disabled and injured detainees, accurately report illnesses and injuries, and falsified medical records and death certificates. Medical personnel and medical information was also used to design and implement psychologically and physically coercive interrogations. The United States military medical system failed to protect detainee's human rights, violated the basic principles of medical ethics and ignored the basic tenets of medical professionalism.

scholarly journals The Legal Adviser in International Organizations: Technician or Guardian?

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Treasa Dunworth
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Subsequent Treatment ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq

The participation of lawyers as legal advisers to international organizations is reviewed from a historical and political perspective, looking primarily at the United Nations and the League of Nations. An inquiry is made into the “accountability debate” of international organizations and the role that legal advisers play in this regard. The issue of whether lawyers act as technicians or guardians in the international arena is reviewed historically both through academic publications, and through the writings of lawyers who have acted as international legal advisers. The 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib are analyzed with respect to the advice given to states by their international legal advisers.

scholarly journals The Legal Adviser in International Organizations: Technician or Guardian?

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Treasa Dunworth
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Subsequent Treatment ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq

The participation of lawyers as legal advisers to international organizations is reviewed from a historical and political perspective, looking primarily at the United Nations and the League of Nations. An inquiry is made into the “accountability debate” of international organizations and the role that legal advisers play in this regard. The issue of whether lawyers act as technicians or guardians in the international arena is reviewed historically both through academic publications, and through the writings of lawyers who have acted as international legal advisers. The 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib are analyzed with respect to the advice given to states by their international legal advisers.

GWOT

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-164
Author(s):  
Faisal Devji
Keyword(s):  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Criminal Enterprise ◽  
Guantanamo Bay

The emergence of Al-Qaeda resulted in the deterritorialization of the war waged against it. Neither an old-fashioned enemy operating through institutions like states and armies, nor a civilian and purely criminal enterprise, its networked form of militancy ended up fragmenting and disrupting the hierarchies of Western military force from the inside. This became evident in juridical enclaves like Guantanamo Bay as well as in the culture of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib.

scholarly journals Pramod K. Nayar, The Extreme in Contemporary Culture: States of Vulnerability

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 319-320
Author(s):  
Adam Zmarzlinski
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Abu Ghraib ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Extreme Sports ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Psychological Vulnerability ◽  
Horror Story

Abstract Pramod K. Nayar’s inventive 150-page examination of physical and psychological vulnerability of man under extreme circumstances-torture, terminal illness, environmental and geographical limits etc.-is a brilliant work best described as a thought-provoking, and surprisingly emotional, equivalent of an academic horror story. 'The Extreme in Contemporary Culture' leads the reader through film, literature, extreme sports, two major historical events-9/11 and Chernobyl-and the prisons of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and, like a neat multi-flowered bouquet, interlinks these different topics in one (un)floral cone: the human body under duress.

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