[ 01:26 ] “I remember walking in there for the first time, and the smell is the first thing that hit you”.
The officer named Damien Corsetti
got physically hit when he first walked into the Bagram Prison
was afflicted (affected adversely) by the smell of Bagram prison when he first walked into it
[ 01:33] “Being from D.C.(Washington D.C.), if you have ever been to the National Zoo, when you walk into the elephant house there, that’s the best way to describe it…”
Bagram Prison
is an elephant house
smells like an elephant house
[02:04] “After the invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. forces occupied Bagram, an old Soviet Airbase, as a place to collect and interrogate thousands of detainees, captured throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
According to the above sentences, a detainee is
A person who is held in custody or confinement
A person who keeps people in custody or confinement
[02:04] “After the invasion of Afghanistan, U.S. forces occupied Bagram, an old Soviet Airbase, as a place to collect and interrogate thousands of detainees, captured throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
According to the above sentences, to interrogate means:
To punish officially
To examine by questioning formally or officially
[02:18] “These were suspected Taliban”
In the above sentence, the word ‘suspected’ functions as:
adjective
verb
[02:57] “He was designated a PUC, ‘Person under control’ number 432.”
According to the video, Dilawar, the taxi driver,
was given a name or title of a PUC
decided to be a PUC
[04: 01] “and they kept working on him, kept working on him”
To’ work on’ means:
to exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something
to continue working
[04:40] “But it was the beatings he sustained at Bagram that led to the cause of his death.”
In the above sentence, ‘sustain’ means:
experience or suffer
support
[05:00] “A preliminary investigation into Dilawar’s death revealed deep bruises all over his body.”
From the images of the video, a bruise is:
an injury that doesn’t break the skin but results in some discoloration
a disease that changes the skin color of a person
[05:07] “The next day, they said, “Just draw out how he was shackled up here, and I made that little crude drawing.”
From the images of the video, ‘crude’ means:
unrefined
refined
[07:28] “People were being told to rough up Iraqis that wouldn’t cooperate”
To ‘rough up’ means:
to make something rough
to treat violently; beat up
[08:08] “In the wake of media attention surrounding Abu Ghraib, the military began a series of investigations.”
‘In the wake of’ means:
as awaken by
as a consequence of
[08:15] “The people who engaged in abuses will be brought to justice.”
To ‘engage in’ means:
To become involved with, do, or take part in something.