Since May 2004 it is known, that there is torture in the prison of Abu-Ghraib in Bagdad, practised by US-American soldiers and members of the CIA. The US-government assured these would be violations of single persons who did not act according to orders or under tolaration of the government.
This film tries to find out if this is true, or if torture is a common part of the "war against terror".
The documentarian Egmont R. Koch detected material showing US-American soldiers and CIA agents torturing in the Abu-Ghraib prison. Many of the offenders are now convicted, but the torturing does not appear to be a single excess, but more a well planned and often practised method. Koch discovered a CIA manual from 1963 explaining scientifically and systematically methods of torturing, which was also used during the dictaorships in Latin America. Obviously the CIA uses this manual once again for its questionings in Guantanamo and Aabu-Ghraib. The roots of these torture methods go back to the time of the National Socialism and the methods applied in the concentration camp of Dachau. In the 1950s the CIA tested its torture methods in a house near Frankfurt and during the tests several subjects died.