ABU SIFFA, IRAQ—“How could this happen?” nearly everyone asks these days.  But as the U.S. now releases hundreds of men from Abu Ghraib prison, another question, “Why were so many Iraqis locked up there in the first place?” is likely to...

This is the farm village that Cliff Kindy, leader of the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT), refers to as the "razor wire place." It's actually a small town, around half of which the U.S. Army has unrolled concertina razor wire, and completed the effect with a checkpoint...

If a "rogue nation" or swarthy men with foreign accents did it, we know what we'd call it. What the world's most powerful military did to the village of Abou Siffa must be called the same thing: terrorism. A small citrus grove was the last stop on our tour...