the US Army Professionals in Iraq — May 2004 (06 May 2004 #20814)
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WASHINGTON POST
PLANNING TO UNLEASH MORE PRISONER ABUSE PHOTOS,
NEWSROOM SOURCES TELL DRUDGE REPORT…
THE pictures obtained by The
Post include shots of soldiers simulating sexually explicit acts with one another and shots of a cow being skinned and gutted and soldiers posing with its severed head. There are also dozens of pictures of a cat’s severed head….
Other photographs show wounded men and dead bodies. In one, a dead man is lying in the back of a truck, his shirt, face and left arm covered in blood. His right arm is missing. Another photograph shows a dead body, gray and decomposing. A young soldier is leaning over the corpse, smiling broadly and giving the “thumbs-up” sign. And in another picture a young woman lifts her shirt, exposing her breasts.
She is wearing a white band with numbers on her wrist, but it is unclear if she is a prisoner.
Another photograph of a naked man with a dark hood over his head, handcuffed to a cell door. And another of a naked man handcuffed to a bunk bed, his arms splayed so wide that his back is arched…
A picture shows a soldier holding a leash tied around a naked man’s neck in an Iraqi prison….