ABSTRACT
Although Americans and Britons do not like to think they violate human rights, abuses committed by US and British soldiers in Iraq have come to light. According to Amnesty International, the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad in 2004 was part of an “iconography of torture, cruelty and degradation” that followed the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington
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Figure 11.1 Iran’s Basij Militia
‘military necessity.’”2 And British soldiers were told that they were not bound by the Human Rights Act when detaining and interrogating Iraqi prisoners.3
