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The photos America doesn't want seen
Sydney Morning Herald ^ | February 15, 2006 | Matthew Moore

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Tonight the SBS Dateline program plans to broadcast about 60 previously unpublished photographs that the US Government has been fighting to keep secret in a court case with the American Civil Liberties Union.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."


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abugrabass; abugraib; oldnews; photos; tellittomohammed; wot; yawn
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1 posted on 02/14/2006 7:37:25 PM PST by Daralundy
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To: Daralundy
Not this again...


2 posted on 02/14/2006 7:39:31 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Daralundy

There is nothing left to this non-story. Its time came and went 18 months ago.


3 posted on 02/14/2006 7:39:59 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: Daralundy

Yawn.


4 posted on 02/14/2006 7:40:39 PM PST by manic4organic (We won. Get over it.)
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To: Daralundy
There are also pictures of what appear to be burns and wounds from shotgun pellets.

Oh, those flaming shotgun pellets!

5 posted on 02/14/2006 7:40:44 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Daralundy

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?!?


6 posted on 02/14/2006 7:41:18 PM PST by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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To: Dog Gone
"Oh, those flaming shotgun pellets!"

What? No heart attacks?

7 posted on 02/14/2006 7:41:51 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: Dog Gone


Cheney did it.


8 posted on 02/14/2006 7:41:53 PM PST by jazusamo (A Progressive is only a Socialist in a transparent disguise.)
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To: Daralundy
Corpses without an explanation as to cause of death, now that's good reporting......

9 posted on 02/14/2006 7:41:55 PM PST by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.)
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To: Daralundy
Well, the NSA story hasn't worked, Katrina hasn't worked, Abramoff hasn't worked, so now it is time to bring back the tried and true Bush bashing story, Abu Ghraib.
10 posted on 02/14/2006 7:42:05 PM PST by COEXERJ145 ("I hope the Republicans suffer huge defeats in the House/Senate in 2006!"-xrp [Weekly Dumb Comment])
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To: Dog Gone

Those evil shotguns sure are in the headlines these days...


11 posted on 02/14/2006 7:42:08 PM PST by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
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To: Dog Gone
Oh, those flaming shotgun pellets!

I can see the Dummies going on about Vice President Chaney interrogating Prisoners


12 posted on 02/14/2006 7:42:47 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Dog Gone
There are also pictures of what appear to be burns and wounds from shotgun pellets.

Tomorrow David Gregory will ask the whereabouts of Cheney at the time.

13 posted on 02/14/2006 7:42:53 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (An agnostic for religious freedom, not Islamofascistic multiculti PC secularism)
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To: Daralundy
ehh the Muslims are already riled up over cartoons whats a couple pictures of panties on the head gonna do? /sarcasm
14 posted on 02/14/2006 7:43:28 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: Daralundy
"It think it's strange, maybe they think its more of the same."

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.

15 posted on 02/14/2006 7:44:58 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (An agnostic for religious freedom, not Islamofascistic multiculti PC secularism)
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To: darkwing104
and timed so beautifully to accompany al gore-y's "insights" this past Sunday ...



16 posted on 02/14/2006 7:46:06 PM PST by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Daralundy
Let's see... Leashed dogs barking,

Or unsheathed knives sawing...


17 posted on 02/14/2006 7:47:19 PM PST by bikepacker67 (Islam was born of Hagar the whore.)
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To: NCjim

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!


18 posted on 02/14/2006 7:47:38 PM PST by JerseyDvl ("Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"-Samuel Johnson to the Dems of today.)
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To: Daralundy

"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?


19 posted on 02/14/2006 7:49:15 PM PST by RAldrich
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To: Daralundy

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!


20 posted on 02/14/2006 7:49:57 PM PST by papertyger
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