Yet to many abused prisoners like Mr. Marzouki, the commission hearings have proved inadequate.
It is not the case that the photographs of abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib are us.
The current torture case began in the spring of 2004, when photographs of abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib surfaced.
Security forces used unwarranted lethal force and tortured and abused prisoners and detainees, in most cases with impunity.
The comments by General Gardner come in the aftermath of two recent raids of Iraqi government detention centers that uncovered scores of abused prisoners.
A group of abused, scantily-clad female prisoners devise a plan to rebel against their oppressors and escape from their penitentiary.
As a result, hundreds of abused prisoners were released.
They also suggested how officials could inoculate themselves from liability by claiming that abused prisoners were in some other nation's custody.
In addition, he said, abused prisoners were not being interrogated.
It took only a year for the first photos of American soldiers grinning over the bodies of abused Iraqi prisoners to appear.
