Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator to Deliver Keynote

by: koleary

Mon Aug 11, 2008 at 08:03:39 AM EDT

About Joshua Casteel
Joshua is a former interrogator at Abu Ghraib turned conscientious objector and a recent convert to Catholicism.  He gave witness at Winter Soldier and traveled to Rome in March of 2007 with the Catholic Peace Fellowship to meet with Pope Benedict XVI and members of the Vatican to advance the issue of conscientious objection.  He is featured along with Camilo Mejia and six other CO's in the documentary Soldiers of Conscience which will air on PBS's P.O.V. on October 16th.

His book "Letters from Abu Ghraib"  is available on Amazon.com and Small Press Distribution.  

Videos of Joshua Casteel

Conscientious Objection: How Our Beliefs About War Changed

Joshua talks of his epiphany

"How I Became a Conscientious Objector"