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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (377224)	4/9/2008 11:55:08 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577951

"These people were not harmed. They were, at worst, embarrassed -- at least, that's what the evidence shows. If they were mistreated beyond that and there is no evidence of it," That is counter-factual. Only a few of the pictures were released in the US. Bush managed to keep the lid on the rest because he said that it would provoke retaliation against our troops. He was probably right... In February 2006, previously unreleased photos and videos were broadcast by SBS, an Australian television network. According to initial reports, the Bush administration is attempting to prevent release of the images in the US, arguing that their publication could provoke antagonism towards them. According to BBC World News, the photographs were probably taken around the same time as the previously released photographs, and include some of the same prisoners and convicted soldiers from the earlier images. These newly-released photographs depict prisoners crawling on the floor naked, being forced to perform sexual acts, and being covered in feces. Some images also show homicide and corpses, some shot in the head and some with slit throats. BBC World News stated that one of the prisoners, who was reportedly mentally unstable, was considered by prison guards as a 'pet' for torture.[79][80][81][82][83] The UN expressed hope that the pictures would be investigated immediately but the Pentagon stated that the images "have been previously investigated as part of the Abu Ghraib investigation."[84] Five of the newly released pictures can be seen on the ElMundo webpage.[85] SBS claims not to have published the most shocking pictures due to the degree of their depravity, an example being the sodomy photo. On March 15, 2006, Salon.com published the most extensive documentation of the abuse.[86] The source who gave the CID material to Salon magazine is familiar with the CID investigation. The DVD containing the material includes a June 6 2004, CID investigation report written by Special Agent Seigmund. That report includes the following summary of the material: "A review of all the computer media submitted to this office revealed a total of 1,325 images of suspected detainee abuse, 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse, 660 images of adult pornography, 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees, 29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts, 20 images of a soldier with a Swastika drawn between his eyes, 37 images of Military Working dogs being used in abuse of detainees and 125 images of questionable acts." en.wikipedia.org Shot in the head. Slit throats. Sodomy. Yeah. At worse embarrassed.