Description: In March 2003 the United States military launched an invasion of Iraq. Months afterwards rumors began circulating about human rights violations in military prison facilities throughout occupied Iraq. In January 2004, an Army MP serving in Abu Ghraib Prison left a disc containing photographs of prisoner abuse on the bed of a military investigator. The photographs were infamous the moment they came to public attention, and the face of the Iraq War was re-drawn as Abu Ghraib and sadistic American soldiers.
Brief description: Salvatore Anthony Esposito, Jr., works for Suffolk County (N.Y.) civil service and spends his free time promoting Voice of Freedom International Ministries as well as a charity for permanently disabled veterans, the Wounded Warrior Project. He lives in Coram, New York.