Pentagon to release photos of alleged prisoner abuse

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CNN) -- The Defense Department is set to release hundreds of photographs showing alleged abuse of prisoners in detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The release is in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. It follows President Obama's decision to release Bush-era CIA documents showing that the U.S. used techniques like waterboarding -- considered torture by the current administration.

Photographs released in 2006 of detainees being abused and humiliated at the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq sparked widespread outrage and led to convictions for several prison guards and the ouster of the prison's commander.

The ACLU said the Pentagon had agreed to release a "substantial" number of photographs by May 28. Officials at the Pentagon have said the photographs are from more than 60 criminal investigations between 2001 and 2006 and show military personnel allegedly abusing detainees.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/12/prisoner.photos/index.html

[Mari333]

1. good. nt

[ShortnFiery]

2. Yes, let's see the UGLY TRUTH. Maybe then Americans will see that War is TERRORISM

and MAKE the "power elite" pull ALL our troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.

Can anyone say with confidence what EXACTLY it is that we are fighting FOR within two occupations of sovereign Countries?!?