Posted on 04/24/2009 6:42:50 PM PDT by GOPGuide
President Barack Obama is to release up to 2,000 photographs of alleged abuse at American prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in a move which will reignite the scandal surrounding Abu Ghraib prison in 2004.
The decision to make public the images sought in a legal action by the American Civil Liberties Union comes amid a political firestorm over alleged torture of detainees under President George W. Bush.
Some of the photographs, which will be released before May 28, are said to show American service personnel humiliating prisoners, according to officials.
The images relate to more than 400 separate cases involving alleged prisoner abuse between 2001 and 2005.
Descriptions of some of the alleged abuse photographs include:
* A prisoner pushed up against a wall as military guards or interrogators appear to threaten to sexually assault him with a broomstick
* Female soldiers posing with hooded, shackled prisoners who were stripped naked
* Hooded prisoners on transport planes with Playboy magazines opened to pictures of nude women on their laps
The administration initially planned to release only the 21 photos sought by the ACLU, but General David Petraeus ordered that all 2,000 photographs be released to keep from "dragging this issue out forever".
The Pentagon fears a backlash in the Middle East similar to the one provoked by pictures from Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad, in 2004 which became emblematic of American mistakes in Iraq.
Amrit Singh, an ACLU lawyer, said that "these photographs provide visual proof that prisoner abuse by US personnel was not aberrational but widespread, reaching far beyond the walls of Abu Ghraib".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
2000 photographs... Obama really hates America.
Obama Akbar!
OMG ... the horror
The List, ping
Sounds like a lot of “Boo freaking hoo” pics.
Why is this needed?
It’s just going to stir up hate towards the vast majority of good military personnel.
If you had told any American patriot from past generations that America’s # 1 enemy would one day be its Commander in Chief, with strong support from various venal Seantors, they would have laughed in your face.
Yes there is ... TREASON
It’s a post-partisan era, and Obama is here to unite the country. [/s]
As Charles Krauthammer said, Obama is looking to “cross the Rubicon” — and from there only one of two things can happen.
i have to believe that what goes around, comes around. gonna suck to be 0 isn’t it?
He is a TRAITOR.
Make sure you substitute the obama symbol for the O in TRA
ITOR.
Why, why, why,.......
DO THE PICTURES EXIST?
Would it have been better if the the hooded prisoners had Playgirl magazines opened to pictures on nude men on their laps?
Partly, to distract from all of Obama’s failures as POTUS!
Why don’t the dumb bass turd just release them as a “coffee table book” and then sell the books? He could at least make some of that 10 trillion dollars back for the taxpayers. Morons who don’t understand capitalism really piss me off. This is a shot at some big bucks for the government.
I don’t think I will be able to bear it if prisoners are forced to wear ladies panties on their head.
able and ready..which state leaves first? And who all is ready to go?
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