<DIV>In the fall of 2003, Iraqi prisoners were beaten, stripped naked, confined in small spaces, tortured, sexually humiliated, and abused by U.S. personnel at Abu Ghraib, a sprawling prison complex near Baghdad. The abuse was kept hidden by the U.S. military until photographs of the victims and their smiling tormentors were released to a stunned American public. Several investigations into the scandal were launched. Their assessment of the "brutality and purposeless sadism" at Abu Ghraib is shocking. <p> <I>The Abu Ghraib Investigations</I> reveals the awful truth about what happened at Abu Ghraib, who is responsible, and what can be done about it. It includes: <p> ? A lead essay by Craig R. Whitney of the <I>New York Times,</I> putting the scandal in historical and political context <p> ? Excerpts from the official Abu Ghraib Report, commissioned by Donald Rumsfeld, analyzing the events leading up to the abuses and their consequences <p> ? Excerpts from the Jones/Fay Investigation, commissioned by the Pentagon, detailing specific abuses in graphic detail <p> ? Photographs that led to the investigations of the abuses <p> ? Key documents, including official military interrogation policies and the infamous Presidential memo of February 7, 2002</div>