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| 2004-05-08 |
| ... After the session, Graham told reporters outside the chamber that there will be additional allegations of "rape and murder," apparently related to the content of the videos, according to NBC News. .... "There was a special women’s section. There were young boys in there. There were things done to young boys that were videotaped. It’s much worse," Hersh said during an appearance on Fox News Tuesday. NBC News reported further details Friday evening, quoting unnamed sources who said that the unreleased material showed a prisoner being beaten nearly to death, an Iraqi female being raped by American soldiers and male children being raped by Iraqi guards. The L.A. Times reported that the unreleased material includes images of at least one detainee being forced to engage in oral sex. The Washington Post and NBC News both reported that the videos include images of soldiers posing "inappropriately" with a dead body, apparently a detainee slain in prison. .... Suhaib al-Baz, journalist for al Jazeerah television told British broadcaster ITV that the pictures were taken as part of a contest among the soldiers at the prison. "They were enjoying taking photographs of the torture. There was a daily competition to see who could take the most gruesome picture," al-Baz told ITV. "The winner’s photo would be stuck on a wall and also put on their laptop computers as a screensaver." |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #6 Hackworth means an automatic 48 hour rule. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2004-05-08 11:54:16 PM |
| #5 I will wait to see the pics/videos this time. I think it is important that every video every pic be vetted as closely as possible and treated with a strong healthy dose is skepticism. I don't want, this next round, to hear a journalist say this is a pic of an American soldier performing this act without the name of the soldier and the name of the victim the date and the time, the source of the video, etc. The story had better be complete this time. The same standard shoud apply to the press. If this is planted material, heads should roll on the journalist community as well, and I mean in the form of criminal charges as well as civil penalties. I think we need to hold everyone the same high standards of conduct our soldiers are being held to. And you gotta wonder. Rumsfeld is talking about seeing videos and pics far worse than anything that has been released so far, but yet so has an Al Jizm reporter see some material as well. Are they seeing the same material? If so, how did Al Jizz see it and not release it. They love to embarass us. If the pics are real, why don't they show them? If not, the second question applies. Why hasn't the other material not been released? Why is Al Jizz holding back? Editing the material perhaps? All I want is to make certain, Al Qaeda productions didnt get hold of snuff porn, edited it, and planted the material beforehand. If something like that happens, I'd say we have a big rat in the house at very high levels in the Pentagon. Of course if the material is real, those who raped and killed must be brought to justice, the officers, regardless of if they were aware should be relieved of command. I want this done right. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-05-08 11:48:13 PM |
| #4 I think that it is pretty clear that these are not Winter Soldier allegations. I hope they put these perps behind bars for life. I have no sympathy for them. The damage they have done is not repairable. They are no better than Sadaam or his henchmen and they have betrayed their country and wasted the blood efforts of their commrades. They are scum. |
| Posted by: Anny Emous 2004-05-08 11:29:18 PM |
| #3 badanov, can't you guess? It's Col. David Hackworth--ring any bells? |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-05-08 11:28:22 PM |
| #2 Winter Soldier 2004, anyone? Can hardly wait to see who is behind these 'revelations.' |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-05-08 11:24:51 PM |
| #1 Future Revelations in Interrogation Scandal Will Be Horrific THEY WILL HAVE BEEN FED PORK! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-08 10:53:00 PM |