Posted on 02/14/2006 7:37:22 PM PST by Daralundy
The photos America doesn't want seen
More snaps from Abu Ghraib … some of the photographs the US Government has been fighting to keep secret of the prison in Iraq.
By Matthew Moore February 15, 2006
MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.
Tonight the SBS Dateline program plans to broadcast about 60 previously unpublished photographs that the US Government has been fighting to keep secret in a court case with the American Civil Liberties Union.
Although a US judge last year granted the union access to the photographs following a freedom-of-information request, the US Administration has appealed against the decision on the grounds their release would fuel anti-American sentiment.
Some of the photos are similar to those published in 2004, others are different. They include photographs of six corpses, although the circumstances of their deaths are not clear. There are also pictures of what appear to be burns and wounds from shotgun pellets.
The executive producer of Dateline, Mike Carey, said he was showing the pictures leaked to his program because it was important people understood what had happened at Abu Ghraib.
Seven US guards were jailed following publication of the first batch of Abu Ghraib photographs in April 2004.
Mr Carey said he could not explain why the photographs had not yet been published, as he thought it was likely that some journalists had them.
"It think it's strange, maybe they think its more of the same."
There is nothing left to this non-story. Its time came and went 18 months ago.
Yawn.
Oh, those flaming shotgun pellets!
The MSM and the ACLU are enemies of the state and should be treated as such. I am getting madder by the minute at these anti-American scum. If they hate our country so much, why don't they just leave us damn well alone?!?
What? No heart attacks?
Cheney did it.
Those evil shotguns sure are in the headlines these days...
I can see the Dummies going on about Vice President Chaney interrogating Prisoners
Tomorrow David Gregory will ask the whereabouts of Cheney at the time.
Because it IS. What's the news here? Seven soldiers in jail over this isn't enough?
Meanwhile, US soldiers have helped give liberty to 30 million people in 2 nations. Yawn, I guess.
Or unsheathed knives sawing...
I can't believe how great a job GWB does of maintaining this country with the constant attacks.
Slick Willy was totally distracted from the terrorists by that evil Ken Starr. Bush is attacked by schools of pit bulls on a daily basis and yet somehow, this hayseed idiot who somehow "tricked" the world into war manages to do his job impressively.
He truly is The Teflon Man!
"The executive producer of Dateline, Mike Carey, said he was showing the pictures leaked to his program because it was important people understood what had happened at Abu Ghraib."
Right. Did Dateline show the Mohammed cartoons?
I can't believe American soldiers would allow such a travesty! Those have to be the most obscene photos I've ever had the misfortune of viewing.
You can clearly see every single one of those detainees was breathing!
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