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I'm not quite sure what to make of this.

Seems like if this was legit, NYT and WP would be all over it. So far, it appears only USA Today mentions it at all.

Mods, sorry if this doesn't belong in breaking news.

1 posted on 05/28/2009 8:29:52 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel
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And of course this never goes on in any other prison in the world and are most likely isolated incidents.


2 posted on 05/28/2009 8:31:01 AM PDT by Slapshot68
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Can’t wait for Mooslimbs to start killing eachother over this before it’s revealed as a fake.

Thanks, Newsweak.


3 posted on 05/28/2009 8:31:11 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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Some of the earliest photos depicted rape. However those photos were staged for a rape porn site.


5 posted on 05/28/2009 8:32:06 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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Rape happens ... everywhere. Why is Abu Ghraib so special?


6 posted on 05/28/2009 8:32:43 AM PDT by library user
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Looks like Gen. Taguba wants his name back in the news again.


7 posted on 05/28/2009 8:32:48 AM PDT by dirtboy
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At least one picture shows... while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.

"Don't ask, don't tell" has consequences.

8 posted on 05/28/2009 8:32:52 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

Sounds like Al Quida sent them some photo shopped pix. If true, get some cells ready at Ft Leavenworth.


9 posted on 05/28/2009 8:33:42 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft
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Just a way to force the release of photos in order to prove they are all lies.


10 posted on 05/28/2009 8:34:28 AM PDT by Dustbunny ("Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. " Ronald Reagan)
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“Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.”

ANYONE being forcibly disrobed (for any of a number of reasons) would eventually be at least partially naked. Was it clear that the purpose WAS to “expose her breasts”?

Sensationalism at its worst.

“You give me the photos, I’ll give you the war.”

Yellow journalism tarnishes the trade.


11 posted on 05/28/2009 8:35:04 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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I suspect that the military took care of the abuses with the courts-martials held...if it was rape, however, and it went unreported then Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Col. Janis Karpinski needs to be held accoutable again.
13 posted on 05/28/2009 8:35:40 AM PDT by meandog (If you don't like pitbulls, don't get one!)
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Has anyone been charged with these alleged crimes? If we have photos and eye witnesses, why not?


14 posted on 05/28/2009 8:37:01 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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I don’t buy it. If it happened, I seriously doubt it would have been photographed. This ain’t putting underwear on mustafa’s head. Rape gets soldiers sent to Ft. Leavenworth, so I doubt they would create evidence for a JAG officer to send them there.


15 posted on 05/28/2009 8:37:22 AM PDT by henkster (The GOP is housebroken window-dressing displayed to portray the fiction of a Republic.)
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This would explain why a 'soldier' in Darfur would stick his bayonet through a four year old girl then hold her body aloft as her blood rained down on him. Did I mention the girl's father was forced to watch before being killed himself?

That is what I read in the book "The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur." That people were being tortured 'after' details of 'abuses' Abu Ghraib and Gitmo were released.

16 posted on 05/28/2009 8:37:29 AM PDT by synbad600
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Who would take photos of a rape?


17 posted on 05/28/2009 8:37:38 AM PDT by windcliff
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This Gen. Taguba guy is very suspect imho. Has been for a very long time.


18 posted on 05/28/2009 8:37:47 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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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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"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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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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Karpinsky’s fault.


30 posted on 05/28/2009 8:50:05 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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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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