Posted on 05/23/2004 10:42:20 AM PDT by dila813
Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq: report
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LONDON (AFP) - Cellphones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq (news - web sites) on orders from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a business newspaper reported.
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Quoting a Pentagon (news - web sites) source, The Business newspaper said the US Defense Department believes that some of the damning photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were taken with camera phones.
"Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," it said, adding that a "total ban throughout the US military" is in the works.
Disturbing new photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse, which the US government had reportedly tried to keep hidden, were published Friday in the Washington Post newspaper.
The photos emerged along with details of testimony from inmates at Abu Ghraib who said they were sexually molested by female soldiers, beaten, sodomized and forced to eat food from toilets.
Thank Goodness!
It should have been the rule from the beginning, and by doing so, could have avoided this silly, politically volatile, episode.
Sounds like a downtown San Francisco buffet after the "PRIDE" march.
This is a sorry plan which will backfire.
One has to wonder: Why wasn't this order in force from the beginning of the war?
Why would it backfire? Even before the digital age, cameras were not permitted in high security areas or prisons. They usually post something at the front gates.
Is there a reference on this story? Brit Hume said yesterday that it was a joke.
We don't even allow these cameras in the private club I work for.
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