Civil Liberties   comments_image Comments  Seymour Hersh: "After
9/11 We Became a Different Country"  The New Yorker's star
reporter discusses Abu Ghraib, the "war on terror," and why U.S.
reporters don't pay enough attention to the Arab press.  Asharq
Al-Awsat, London -- In this interview, Asharq Al-Awsat speaks to
veteran American reporter Seymour Hersh, who, four years ago,
exposed the now infamous prison abuse scandal of Abu Ghraib in
Iraq at the hands of U.S. soldiers.  In 1969, Hersh brought to
light the My Lai massacre carried out by U.S. forces in Vietnam,
for which he received a Pulitzer Prize for International
Reporting in 1970.  However, as most journalists know, it is
impossible to please everybody. Hersh has been praised and is
often regarded as "the last American reporter," while on the
other hand he is also criticized and described as "the closest
thing American journalism has to a terrorist," particularly for
his outspokenness against the American administration and U.S.
forces.  The interview