Judge Orders Release Of Abu Ghraib Child Rape Photos

[Nbadan]

Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Child Rape Photos
Submitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2006-10-23 20:54. Evidence
By Greg Mitc , http://www.editorandpublisher.com

NEW YORK A federal judge ruled today that graphic pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America's image. Last year a Republican senator conceded that they contained scenes of "rape and murder" and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said they included acts that were "blatantly sadistic."


............ Seymour Hersh, who helped uncover the scandal, said in a speech before an ACLU convention: "Some of the worse that happened that you don't know about, ok? Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read they were passing letters, communications out to their men ... . The women were passing messages saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened.'

"Basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys/children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. The worst about all of them is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror it's going to come out."

Judge erstein said today that publication of the photographs will help to answer questions not only about the unlawful conduct of American soldiers, but about “the command structure that failed to exercise discipline over the troops, and the persons in that command structure whose failures in exercising supervision may make them culpable along with the soldiers who were court-martialed for perpetrating the wrongs.”

After Downing Street

The tortures, the renditions, and now the child rapes were the act of a bunch of undiciplined, sadistic troops who acted independently from sanctioned U.S. policy, right?

[Ocotillo]

The tortures, the renditions, and now the child rapes were the act of a bunch of undiciplined, sadistic troops who acted independently from sanctioned U.S. policy, right?

I think el Rushbo likened it to fraternity hijinks.

[Nbadan]

I think el Rushbo likened it to fraternity hijinks.

Well, look at Lush, of course child rape was a frat prank to him.

[clambake]

Republicans are outraged over the leak. Story doesn't matter. On Fox News.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

well... disappointing to say the least. Terrorists torture and decapitate, now it turns out the American military rapes and sodomizes... At least the people involved are being brought to justice, hopefully

[Nbadan]

Times have changed... In 1947, the U.S. Called Waterboarding a War Crime (WP 5 Oct 06)...

Waterboarding Historically Controversial
In 1947, the U.S. Called It a War Crime; in 1968, It Reportedly Caused an Investigation

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 5, 2006; Page A17[/B]

[B]... Twenty-one years earlier, in 1947, the United States charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for carrying out another form of waterboarding on a U.S. civilian. The subject was strapped on a stretcher that was tilted so that his feet were in the air and head near the floor, and small amounts of water were poured over his face, leaving him gasping for air until he agreed to talk.

"Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) told his colleagues last Thursday during the debate on military commissions legislation. "We punished people with 15 years of hard labor when waterboarding was used against Americans in World War II," he said.

Washington Post

This is important because yesterday Darth Cheney all but admitted that interogators tortured, errrr.....water-boarded suspected Al-Queda members