The Hooded Man

I found this article really interesting -- disturbing, but interesting. I hadn't heard of Abu Ghraib before and hadn't seen the photo of the hooded man. It's strange to think that the Americans documented themselves abusing prisoners at the camp, and somehow shared them to the point that it became a worldwide scandal. Either they didn't know or didn't believe what they were doing to the prisoners was very wrong. But without their documentation, the uproar around the situation never would have happened. I think that Frederick's photo became the more famous one out of all the ones taken because of the anonymity that you don't see as well in Harman's photograph that includes Frederick. The situation is a bit harder to decipher without Frederick standing in the corner of the photograph. I also found it really interesting that the photo of the hooded man wasn't as much of a symbol of outrage as it is in the US compared to the Arab world, where the photo of Harman smiling over the dead prisoner is their symbol.

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