Two weeks later, on August 31, Major General Geoffrey Miller, warden of the Guantánamo Bay prison, was brought to Iraq on his mission to “Gitmoize” the Abu Ghraib prison.17 Two weeks after that, on September 14, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, top commander in Iraq, authorized a wide range of new interrogation procedures based on the Guantánamo model, including deliberate humiliation (called “pride and ego down”), “exploit[ing] Arab fear of dogs,” sensory deprivation (called “light control”), sensory overload (yelling, loud music) and “stress positions.” It was shortly after the Sanchez
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