Pentagon blocks new video evidence of prisoner abuse

Al Jazeera ^ | 8/13/2005 | unknown

[Jay777]

If the images are made public, "riots, violence and attacks by insurgents will result", General Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a statement in support of the Pentagon's case.

Myers claims that the release "would aid the recruitment effort and other activities of insurgent elements."

He also said it will "endanger the lives and physical safety of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in the United States Armed Forces presently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan."

The documents, which show both the high level and the determination of the Pentagon officials who are engaged in the effort to block the disclosure of the new evidence, were filed in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

Under the Freedom of Information Act , the ACLU is seeking to obtain the release of 87 new photographs and four videotapes taken at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. The photographs were among those turned over to army investigators last year by Specialist Joseph Darby, a reservist who was posted at Abu Ghraib.

Darby was the first to uncover the Abu Ghraib scandal last year when he handed military investigators scandalous photographs and video tapes showing his fellow military policemen brutally abusing and torturing Iraqi detainees; the U.S. was holding at Abu Ghraib prison.

[Jay777]

Interesting that Al Jazeera has picked up the ACLU's talking points.

No Spin, No Propaganda Version...Al Jazeera Taking The Words From The ACLU’s Mouth

[Jay777]

PING!

[harpu]

Out of curiosity, what possesses one to surf Al Jazeera for news?

[Jay777]

Actually it was a tip.

[harpu]

Did you shower afterwards, and delete 'all cookies' that may have been planted?

[darkwing104]

In other words from Al Jazeera, anything done in of name of Islam is ok. Beheading, rape, bombings and honor killings are all just fine as long it is done in the name of Islam. Anything done outside of Islam against terrorist Muslims is worthy of a Jihad....Koran SAT 666.

[Piquaboy]

That Muslim terrorist tool should be blown off the face of the earth.

[dennisw]

Out of curiosity, what possesses one to surf Al Jazeera for news?

I never go to Allah's Jizz excerpt on a tip and have posted stuff from there too.

[saquin]

FWIW, the Washington Post seems to have had all of these additional photos and videos since May 2004. They even wrote an article describing them. There doesn't seem to be anything particularly shocking, new or newsworthy contained in them beyond what we already know.

Videos Amplify Picture of Violence - Washington Post [May 21, 2004]

[Search4Truth]

They should release the tapes in order to route out the remaining vermin, so our boys can kill them like the morons they are. No sense in leaving the job incomplete.

[purpleland]

Did the ACLU investigate or monitor Janet Reno & Clintons' WACO disaster? Did the ACLU or Amnesty International charge Civil and Human Rights' violations? Did American citizens speak out against Clintons' "police state" tactics?

It is for outrageous political expediency that the WACO disaster is swept under the political stigma carpet by the MEDIA establishment and its "liberal" pundits.

The "liberal" leftists' slanderous war against Ashcroft, and particularly ACLU's president Nadine Strossen's letter* accusing Ashcroft of trying to "destroy freedom" demostrates retro-Soviet propaganda tactics. The ACLU raged against Ashcroft after having blinked at and having ignored Reno & Clinton's WACO holocaust. ACLU's selective on/off conscience, according to THEIR radical ideological agenda, bespeaks of the ACLU's total lack of credibility and its overly left-loaded biases.

*In my possession ACLU/Strossen's form letter using scare mongering to solicit donations and "card carrying members."

[YOUGOTIT]

First there was NO ABUSE. These enemy terrorist were treated better than they would have been at any prison in the land of the Arab, Africa, South American or Asia or North America.

There were no beheading, eye gouging and removal, limb dissection, sex organ removal, or tongue removal by rusty knife. So what is the problem? A bunch of left-wing fascist supporters of the terrorist want to have more Americans killed so they want to show these terrorists being given a sex show.