Al
Basrah
Sunday, May 2, 2004
The Abu Ghraib
Prison Photos It's
the "liberation" of the Iraqi people THESE are just some of the photos that led to an
investigation into conditions at the Abu Ghraib
prison, now run by the occupation authorities, as
revealed in a shocking report
broadcast by CBS on 60 Minutes II. Some images Copyright
CBS News: Reprinted for Fair Use
Brigadier-General
Janis Karpinski, who was responsible for military
jails in Iraq Brig. Gen. Janice Karpinski, in charge of the
occupiers' detention facilities throughout Iraq,
has been dismissed from her post, and 6 U.S.
soldiers face charges. "This is international standards," said
Karpinski, in an earlier interview with CBS. "It's
the best care available in a prison facility." [FPP website note:
some of the pictures, reproduced below, show basic
humiliation and degradation scenes; others of an
explicitly sexual nature are reproduced
on
a separate
page, and
we ask our readers to use their discretion whether
to view that page or to allow others to view
it] | 
[An Iraqi prisoner was told he
would be electrocuted if he fell off the
box] 
US female soldier Lynndie
England points imaginary gun at Iraqi
prisoner's genitals 
Her boyfriend US prison officer, here a
reserve US Army officer, Specialist
Charles Graner poses with heap of
naked, hooded Iraqi prisoners
 As
Seymour Hersh writes, "The
photographs tell it all. In one,
Private England, a cigarette
dangling from her mouth, is giving a
jaunty thumbs-up sign and pointing at
the genitals of a young Iraqi, who is
naked except for a sandbag over his
head, as he masturbates. Three other
hooded and naked Iraqi prisoners are
shown, hands reflexively crossed over
their genitals. A fifth prisoner has
his hands at his sides. In another,
England stands arm in arm with
Specialist Graner; both are
grinning and giving the thumbs-up
behind a cluster of perhaps seven naked
Iraqis, knees bent, piled clumsily on
top of each other in a pyramid. There
is another photograph of a cluster of
naked prisoners, again piled in a
pyramid. Near them stands Graner,
smiling, his arms crossed; a woman
soldier stands in front of him, bending
over, and she, too, is smiling.
"
[Further
sexually eplicit photos allegedly of this
series, of unproven authenticity
] [ Note, 4.5.04: The above
link appears to have been
disabled] [Albasrah
received an e-mail with the latter
pictures. FPP website note: The
pictures are of an explicitly sexual
nature, and we ask our readers to use
their discretion whether to view that
page or to allow others to view it.
Their authenticity is unproven, and
they might equally have been clipped
from a pornographic video.] |
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