Playing at torture, a not so trivial pursuit
- Written by Nicholas Bowman, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, West Virginia University
From 2003 to 2009, Camp Bucca was a detention facility used by the U.S. military to house prisoners from the Iraq War. As early as 2004, news reports surfaced that the camp was the site of prisoner abuse and torture. Some military experts have linked this abuse and torture to the formation of the Islamic State, or ISIS, group.
By the end of 2016,...