In the same month the chemical plot was disrupted, U.S. television networks carried images of GIs abusing prisoners at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison. Arab anger boiled over at photos of naked inmates wearing dog collars and being sexually humiliated by female soldiers. Abdullah, during a visit to Washington that spring, urged President George W. Bush to apologize to Iraqis for the degrading treatment of prisoners, which Bush did, with Jordan’s king standing by his side.
