: For many Iraqis, the "18 miles" represented the short but treacherous road between the center of power in Baghdad and the place where "their futures were stolen".
was notorious for torture and executions under the regime of Saddam Hussein. Following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, the facility was refurbished and repurposed as a U.S. military prison. At its peak, it held approximately 3,800 detainees, many of whom were later found to have been arrested by mistake The Scandal Unfolds (2004) Abu Ghraib prison 18
, Iraq. This distance became a defining geographic marker for the facility as it transitioned from a site of torture under Saddam Hussein to an international coalition detention center during the Iraq War. The Story of Abu Ghraib : For many Iraqis, the "18 miles" represented
: Forcing naked detainees into "human pyramids," sodomizing prisoners with objects, and coercing them to perform sexual acts while being photographed. invasion of Iraq, the facility was refurbished and