Pentagon Releases 200 Photos of Bush-Era Prisoner Abuse, Thousands Kept Secret

[JEB]

'What the photos that the government has suppressed would show is that abuse was so widespread that it could only have resulted from policy or a climate calculated to foster abuse.'
by
Lauren McCauley, staff writer

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/06/pentagon-releases-200-photos-bush-era-prisoner-abuse-thousands-kept-secret

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Eliza Relman, a paralegal with the ACLU's National Security Project, said that documents and emails that the government has been forced to release over the course of the litigation give an idea of what the remaining images may contain.

"We have found more than 100 documents that either reference photos related to cases of abuse or actually contain photos that were redacted before they got to us," Relman said.

She continued:

The photos still being withheld include those related to the case of a 73-year-old Iraqi woman detained and allegedly sexually abused and assaulted by U.S. soldiers. According to the Army report detailing the incident, the soldiers forced her to "crawl around on all-fours as a 'large man rode' on her,” striking her with a stick and calling her an animal. Other pictures depict an Iraqi teenager bound and standing in the headlights of a truck immediately after his mock execution staged by U.S. soldiers. Another shows the body of Muhamad Husain Kadir, an Iraqi farmer, shot dead at point-blank range by an American soldier while handcuffed.

The Department of Defense argues that the release of the remaining images would jeopardize national security and "may incite others to violence against Americans and US interests," the ACLU explains.

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This is hard to stomach. No prosecutions of people in charge? WTF

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/06/pentagon-releases-200-photos-bush-era-prisoner-abuse-thousands-kept-secret

[polly7]

1. I remember the day I read an article from somewhere - when the 73 y/o woman was

abused and 'ridden like a donkey' (the words I remember). I was posting at another site then and the support for the 'war' was unbelievably high. Some even laughed about this.

They need to release ALL the photos .... 1900 still locked up.

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. If you dole them out all at once, you create outrage.

If you trickle them out a bit at a time, you create desensitivity.

[Jefferson23]

3. Sick fuckers. Did you happen to hear the GOP debate? Most of them were competing with each

other about torture..bring it back!

Prosecutions? Maybe when and if the American people demand it.

[JEB]

4. As long as our nation refuses to act responsible

and prosecute our very own war criminals the rest of the world will see the USA as a sick and lawless country. These are awful crimes and ignoring them will not relieve us of our responsibility. They should never have been allowed to happen in the first place. To ignore these crimes and not prosecute amounts to a nod of approval. Sad and disgusting.