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To: stockman_scott who wrote (131554)	5/5/2004 4:52:14 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

It's hard to overestimate the damage done by the abuse of prisoners. Curious but the people saying this the loudest are all Americans and Britains, usually on the left. Al Jazeera is all over it, but it's pretty normal for them, their coverage has been about American 'atrocities' from day one. If you read the actual Arab/Iraqi bloggers and papers, they sound less upset, because the American authorities are reacting firmly against Abu Ghuraib abuse. In fact, Yusif Ibrahim of the CFR said on NPR today that the issue is starting to raise questions of the treatment of 10s of 1000s of Arab prisoners in Arab jails, whom everyone knows are routinely subjected to much worse than the Abu Ghuraib prisoners got, who after all are still alive and unmaimed, more than you can say for many of Egypt's or Syria's prisoners, for instance.