Abu Ghraib

better place and change the political geography. They have been compared to Al-Qaeda also, but in reality they are much worse and much more destructive than Al-Qaeda ever was. ISIS has taken Al-Qaeda’s beliefs and amplified them to a radicalism. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the man responsible for starting Isis. In 1999 he met with Osama Bin Laden to discuss joining forces with him, but ultimately decided he did not want to become a part of the Al Qaeda group. Instead he decided to start his own…

also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, others tend to call it the ISIL or Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. ISIS’ leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the former leader’s position in 2006. The first leader of ISIS was Abu Musab al-Zarqawi…

people will fall into their roles in their situation. At Abu Ghraib, US soldiers were exploited for using awful techniques of torture of Iraqi people. Many people have drawn similarities between the two. I believe that the similarities outweigh the differences between the two events and that Zimbardo’s experiment was…

Philip Zimbardo’s TEDTalk “The Psychology of Evil” discusses the line that separates good from evil, and how any human, placed under the right circumstances, can be swayed to either side of that line. Zimbardo begins his talk by discussing the century old question “What makes people go wrong?”. While some people may argue that humans are born either intrinsically good or evil, Zimbardo refutes this claim stating how, as a young boy growing up in the Bronx, he personally witnessed many of his…

The structure of the military is responsible for soldiers committing cruel and unnecessary acts. For example, the My Lai massacre and the abuses at the Abu-Ghraib prison in Iraq are great illustrations of this. Kelman and Hamilton (1989) in “The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience” did not only write about what occurred during the My Lai massacre, but expanded on WHY the military personnel engaged in this horrible act. Their main explanation is that the structure of the military…

how U.S. military personnel at Abu Ghraib let the power get to their heads, leading to them torturing and mistreating prisoners. This could be the same case as well for other settings. I think the study has a big say in with with what happened in Abu Ghraib, as well as other settings, because the guards in the prison study were given power, with no restrictions, letting them believe they could do whatever they wanted to whoever they wanted. For the soldiers at Abu Ghraib, they were put in new…

Inquiry question: what make people participate in such horrible events like the Holocaust, My Lai Massacre, and Abu Ghraib prison along with the conflicts that happened in Iraq, are they naturally evil or the situation that they are put in is evil? Paul Joseph Watson is showing in his article that military soldiers are normal individuals that are put in situations that they can not do anything about but do what they were told. Watson is revealing a story of an Iraq war veteran named Daniel…

Despite what people would like to believe, not much has changed since the Holocaust people obedience to authority still persist. ABC News, in 2007, replicated Milgram’s obedience experiment with the help of experts ranging from university professor to psychologist like Philip Zimabardo. With their help they recreated Milgram’s famous experiment in a modern setting, and, again for lack of a better word, shocking results showed that 70% of the subjects reached the maximum shock potential very…

detainees in the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq (“Abu Ghraib Torture and Prisoner Abuse”). These violations 'included physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, and murder. Did the ticking time bomb scenario of extreme circumstances warrant the use of torture at Abu Ghraib? There were no legal grounds presented to justify the claim of torture because no circumstances whatsoever may be used to justify the use of torture. The images from the human rights violations at Abu Ghraib caused the…

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, he uncovers various reasonings on what influenced him into conducting the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE). Part of his inspiration for writing this book was heavily based on the Abu Ghraib Prison Trial where he was the expert witness to one of the prison guards, Sergeant Ivan “Chip” Douglas, who was convicted of the many tortures and murders of the prisoners that occurred at the prison. He becomes somewhat of an “investigative…