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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (53863)	2/15/2006 1:22:07 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 93284

took him two days

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (53863)	2/15/2006 1:59:12 PM
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Newly released Abu Ghraib images air in Australia TV program shows more videos, photos of apparent abuse Wednesday, February 15, 2006; Posted: 1:38 p.m. EST (18:38 GMT) This image of an Abu Ghraib prisoner is among newly released photos and videos from Australian TV. Image: Gallery: Abuse at Abu Ghraib prison -- More grisly photographs and videos have emerged that appear to show U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The Australian television network SBS program "Dateline" broadcast the pictures and videos Wednesday night. They reportedly date from 2003 -- the same time that previously released photographs of prisoner abuse were taken. "We hope that the release of these photographs will bring about further pressure to hold high-ranking officials accountable for what we now know to have been systemic and widespread abuse occurring throughout Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay," said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Amrit Singh on "Dateline," adding that she had not seen the images. (Watch why the hoods, nudity and poses suggest abuse -- 2:02) Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, said he thought the timing of the new report was "unnecessarily provocative" and "irresponsible." He said any photos from that time period "do not reflect what is happening at Abu Ghraib now." Interviewed before the photos and videos aired, Johnson said he hadn't seen the newly released images. Publication of the original set of pictures in 2004 sparked widespread international condemnation of the United States. (Gallery: Abu Ghraib pictures) The latest images appear to show more abuse, including cases of torture and sexual humiliation such as forcing prisoners to masturbate for the camera. In September, after the ACLU won access to those set of pictures via a Freedom of Information Act request, the U.S. government appealed the decision, tying up their release. Mike Carey, "Dateline's" executive producer, said on the SBS network's Web site that his program "obtained a file of hundreds of pictures." He did not detail how or from whom those pictures, some of which were broadcast on Wednesday's program, were obtained. Some images too graphic to air The program did not show all of the pictures. It deemed some of them too graphic for air, Carey said. Among the images broadcast were pictures of naked men who appeared to have suffered physical trauma, one of whom the report said had 11 nonlethal bullet wounds in his buttocks. Other pictures show dead bodies, one of which the program said a U.S. Army report identified as one of three men killed during a riot over living conditions at the prison. According to the TV report, two Abu Ghraib soldiers said that guards were ordered to use lethal rounds on prisoners after they ran out of rubber bullets trying to halt the riot. A video shows five men wearing hoods and masturbating for the camera, presumably under orders of their guards. One image depicts two women described by a guard to "Dateline" as prostitutes held at the prison for two days. In one picture, the breasts of one of the women are exposed. Another grisly image shows a corpse that appears to have had a section torn from its head, while another one features a man whose arms are covered in purple bruises. Also broadcast was video that appears to show a prisoner -- handcuffed to a metal door -- repeatedly slamming his head full force against the door. Though the guards appear to have videotaped the incident from several vantage points, no one is seen intervening to stop the prisoner. The TV program obscured most of the prisoners' faces so they could not be identified. ACLU alleges orders came from brass When the original set of Abu Ghraib photographs was released nearly two years ago, members of Congress said they had received a private viewing of other, unreleased pictures. Seven low-ranking guards and two military intelligence soldiers -- described by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as "bad apples" -- have been disciplined for the original pictures, though no high-ranking officials have been punished. The longest sentence -- 10 years -- was given to Army Cpl. Charles Graner, seen in many of the pictures. Staff Sgt. Ivan "Chip" Frederick, a U.S. Army reservist from Virginia, received an eight-year sentence. "Looking at the documents we've received under FOIA, it is very clear to us that the actions of these soldiers were part of a larger program to abuse detainees that was put in place by high-ranking officials," the ACLU's Singh told "Dateline." But high-ranking officials involved appear instead to have been "exonerated and promoted," she said.