Posted on 20/05/04
An eerie echo of sordid Abu Ghraib
By astonishing coincidence, a novel was published not too long ago whose story eerily echoes the recent sordid loss of control and civilization in the prison of Abu Ghraib. The novel, written by a Polish seaman living in England, takes place in Africa, rather than in Iraq, but there are so many other parallels to the Iraqi venture that it can hardly be coincidence: It is as if this novelist had some kind of insider knowledge of what would happen to those U.S. jailers as soon as they hit the dangerous wilds of a very foreign culture.
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