Dangerous Beauty

Album: A Bigger Bang (2005)
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  • This song was written about Private Lynndie England and the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq. After Saddam Hussein's fall, the Abu Ghraib prison was used by American forces in Iraq. In 2003, it became clear that the guards were mistreating the prisoners and photos surfaced to prove it. England was in several of the photos and implicated in the scandal. The was sentenced to 3 years in military prison. >>>
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    Bertrand - Paris, France

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  • Mitchell from OhA dangerous beauty and a beatin up booty,
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