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Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'
Telegraph UK ^ | 28 May 2009 | Duncan Gardham and Paul Cruickshank

Posted on 05/28/2009 8:29:52 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel

At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.

Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abughraib; abusephotos; agitprop; enemedia; fakephotos; fauxtography; iraq; mediawar; mythmaking; photos; propaganda; proterrorist; rape; stalinisttactics; worldcantwait; yellowjournalism; zogbyism
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To: cripplecreek
Some of the earliest photos depicted rape. However those photos were staged for a rape porn site.

That's something that occurred to me too. Weren't they shown in the Boston City Council or something?

21 posted on 05/28/2009 8:40:42 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: a fool in paradise
Rape has nothing to do w/ sexual orientation, nor does pedophilia.

Besides, were there any women prisoners for the non-homosexuals to rape if they were so moved?

22 posted on 05/28/2009 8:42:02 AM PDT by synbad600
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To: boxerblues
It looks like some of the picture are ones that were already distributed and are legit, other are questionable....pink sheets and the guy hanging upside down I thought were a hoax. Why do they keep printing it?

Oh, that slide show they've got, those appear to be the old Lindie England and Friends collection.

23 posted on 05/28/2009 8:42:13 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Owl_Eagle; All
FYI: Former Abu Ghraib Brigadier General, Janis Karpinski, AND chief Bush administration 'torture' investigator, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, are both endorsers of a revolutionary communist org/movement called "World Can't Wait":

Details here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246142/posts

24 posted on 05/28/2009 8:42:13 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Yes they were both shown in Boston City Council and reported on by the Boston Glob (owned by the fake but accurate journal of record, the NYet Times) BOTH after they had been exposed as a hoax in the press and by the State Department.


25 posted on 05/28/2009 8:42:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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To: Slapshot68

Yes, homosexuality and sex between guards and female prisoners NEVER happens in any prisons, especially in the US.

Gee, I thought these photos weren’t supposed to be released after all. What a coincidence that their content is publicized just days after Baracky’s reversal.


26 posted on 05/28/2009 8:44:09 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Owl_Eagle
"Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube."

The phosphorescent tube was really a chemical glow stick. The prisoners were told it was radioactive like the opening scene in the Simpson's and that unless they spoke the antidote would be withheld. The consequence would be testicular cancer, loss of hair (including mustache) and a slow painful death. Sounds more humane than water-boarding to me.

27 posted on 05/28/2009 8:45:37 AM PDT by Natural Law
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To: synbad600
Yes, according to the article (and the redacted line I excerpted) they were "raping women" as well as men.

The media never does refer to Saddam Hussein's sons' rape rooms or Saddam's team lopping off hands at Abu Ghraib or disemboweling people there.

Ted Kennedy proclaimed that Abu Ghraib had simply reopened under new management. As horrible as these actions by US persons were, there is NO equivalence to what happened there under Saddam Hussein (or as Hunter S. Thompson said on his ESPN blog, worse than the most horrific Nazi attrocities).

28 posted on 05/28/2009 8:46:07 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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To: Owl_Eagle
These photos are being suppressed in France. And the media doesn't give a Rat's a$$.

Islam's Homemade Concentration Camp (Frontpagemagazine May 28, 2009 Pamela Geller)

The abduction and murder in Paris of a young Jewish man by a gang of Muslim immigrants calling themselves the Barbarians shocked the whole of France in 2006. But now that the accused are on trial - silence.

A French judge has ordered the latest issue of the magazine Choc ("shock") removed from the shelves. The cover showed a man with duct tape completely covering his head, except for a small opening around his nostrils. His nose is bloody. His hands are also bound with duct tape.

It was a photo of Ilan Halimi, the 23-year-old Parisian Jew who was kidnapped and tortured for 24 days by the Barbarians. His captors took the picture and sent it to his family. A lawyer for Halimi's family had complained about the magazine, but Choc's editor-in-chief Paul Payan responded: "Of course, we understand the anguish of the parents and, of course, we share their anguish.... But what's so harrowing is not the publication of this photo. What's harrowing is what it represents, what happened, the reality behind it."


29 posted on 05/28/2009 8:50:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Karpinsky’s fault.


30 posted on 05/28/2009 8:50:05 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: Owl_Eagle
Mistake Number 1: Failed to Inform Troops to Take No Prisoners.
31 posted on 05/28/2009 8:51:17 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann in 2012. With Liz Cheney as Secretary of State.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

We know that a few US soldiers committed crimes at Abu Ghraib, and were tried and punished for it. I see no point in airing photos of the crimes, except to satisfy the Left’s instinct for anti-Americanism.


32 posted on 05/28/2009 8:52:33 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Owl_Eagle
Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse...

TMA - Too Many Adjectives.

33 posted on 05/28/2009 8:55:06 AM PDT by McGruff (Bumper sticker I saw on a older pickup, "Eat my Carbon")
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To: Owl_Eagle

bogus crappola.

more Murtha types calling American soldiers monsters.


34 posted on 05/28/2009 8:55:11 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Owl_Eagle
Oh, that slide show they've got, those appear to be the old Lindie England and Friends collection

Thumbs up Lindsey...thats her
35 posted on 05/28/2009 8:55:16 AM PDT by boxerblues
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To: Owl_Eagle

If true, and that’s a very big if, then it would change my opinion on Abu Gahrib. The previous pictures of naked twister and having a dog collar with chain on one of the prisoners was not abuse. However, these allegations are outright criminal and should be prosecuted. Again, with the caveat of if true.


36 posted on 05/28/2009 8:57:04 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Owl_Eagle
There is not one thing mentioned in this article as fact. Everything is "apparently", "said to be", or "reported to have been".

So under that criteria:

It is thought by some that these types of photos appeal to the sexual desires of the journalists who wrote this article especially if the photos contain images small children.

37 posted on 05/28/2009 8:57:55 AM PDT by armymarinedad (Support, v., To take the side of; to uphold or help.)
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To: Owl_Eagle

Sounds like bull crap to me.


38 posted on 05/28/2009 8:58:36 AM PDT by angcat ("When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe".)
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To: a fool in paradise

I agree.


39 posted on 05/28/2009 8:59:21 AM PDT by synbad600
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To: smokingfrog
Has anyone been charged with these alleged crimes? If we have photos and eye witnesses, why not?

The latest photographs relate to 400 cases of alleged abuse between 2001 and 2005 in Abu Ghraib and six other prisons. Mr Obama said the individuals involved had been “identified, and appropriate actions” taken.

The dirtiest secrets about Abu Ghraib are that the men were already under prosecution for months before the photos leaked, Democrats in Congress had been made aware of the abuse (Hillary Clinton was among those who'd been contacted), and the photos were leaked by one of the participants who had unsuccessfully attempted to negotiate a (blackmail) plea bargain in exchange for not releasing the photos.

40 posted on 05/28/2009 8:59:46 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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