Amazingly enough, after reading Zizek's essay on Radical Evil, i stumbled upon an essay on the tortures that took place in Abu Ghraib (the case became public in 2004). This essay was published in Esquire mag (2008/feb) and gave me an insight into the personal nightmare of one of the detainees. According to Zizek under the Saddam- regime, there was a strong emphasis on physical torture, while U.S army was (has been?) focusing on psychic torment. Is there any difference?
Achmad (business man, who was in his late twenties, when CIA arrested him) was tortured, humiliated and 'being dragged by a leash out of a cell by a girl(!) named England.' (photo)
A year later, Nick Flynn(writer) met Achmad and saw that he (Achmad) shook his head as he saw himself being leashed by England and said: ''I cannot recognize myself as that man.Can you?
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