GORANI: A final thought, while Egypt and Iraq, in fact, much of the region including Syria, seem trapped in a bad dream of sectarian violence and civil war, imagine a world where one infamous barbed wire nightmare refuses to go away. Abu Ghraib prison, a synonym for man's inhumanity to man. When Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist, it was his personal house of horrors, where his political opponents were jailed without trial, tortured and executed. Then 10 years ago, when U.S. forces invaded Iraq, the hellish world of Saddam's prison was laid bare as grieving families were allowed to dig up the bones of loved ones and give them a proper burial. But like the end of a horror movie, when the monster won't die, less than a year later, the world again recoiled in outrage at shocking new digital images of American troops humiliating and abusing prisoners in those same cells and hallways. The last U.S. soldier left Iraq in 2011 and for many, Abu Ghraib was out of sight and out of mind. But a little over three weeks ago, the monster reared its head again, when a bloody prison break freed 500 prisoners, many of them Al Qaeda terrorists, now able to wreak more havoc. One day, the nightmare of Abu Ghraib may finally fade away. But another prison, this one left unfinished by the U.S. withdrawal at a cost of $40 million, remains a monument to waste and failed policies that will continue to haunt us for years to come. That's it for tonight's program. Meantime, you can always contact us on our website, amanpour.com. And you can follow me on Twitter @halagorani. Thank you for watching and goodbye from New York. END
Abu Ghraib, the Nightmare That Will Not End