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US Navy to probe Iraq photos
THE US navy is investigating photos posted on the internet that appear to show Iraqi detainees being abused by navy special forces during their capture in May 2003, a navy spokesman said today.
At least a dozen photos showing bloodied detainees were handed over to officials at the Naval Special Warfare Command at Coronado, California, by an Associated Press reporter who found them on a commercial photo-sharing website.
The photographs, posted by a woman who said her husband brought them home from Iraq, appear to show the aftermath of raids on civilian homes, the Associated Press reported.
The AP reported that Navy SEALs were seen sitting on hooded and bound detainees, holding a gun to a detainee's bloodied head, and placing a boot on the chest of a prone man.
Other photos showed grinning US personnel sitting or lying on top of three hooded prisoners in the back of a pick-up truck, the AP reported.
At least a dozen photos showing bloodied detainees were handed over to officials at the Naval Special Warfare Command at Coronado, California, by an Associated Press reporter who found them on a commercial photo-sharing website.
The photographs, posted by a woman who said her husband brought them home from Iraq, appear to show the aftermath of raids on civilian homes, the Associated Press reported.
The AP reported that Navy SEALs were seen sitting on hooded and bound detainees, holding a gun to a detainee's bloodied head, and placing a boot on the chest of a prone man.
Other photos showed grinning US personnel sitting or lying on top of three hooded prisoners in the back of a pick-up truck, the AP reported.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11585468%255E1702,00.html
The photographs, posted by a woman who said her husband brought them home from Iraq, appear to show the aftermath of raids on civilian homes, the Associated Press reported.
The AP reported that Navy SEALs were seen sitting on hooded and bound detainees, holding a gun to a detainee's bloodied head, and placing a boot on the chest of a prone man.
Other photos showed grinning US personnel sitting or lying on top of three hooded prisoners in the back of a pick-up truck, the AP reported.
At least a dozen photos showing bloodied detainees were handed over to officials at the Naval Special Warfare Command at Coronado, California, by an Associated Press reporter who found them on a commercial photo-sharing website.
The photographs, posted by a woman who said her husband brought them home from Iraq, appear to show the aftermath of raids on civilian homes, the Associated Press reported.
The AP reported that Navy SEALs were seen sitting on hooded and bound detainees, holding a gun to a detainee's bloodied head, and placing a boot on the chest of a prone man.
Other photos showed grinning US personnel sitting or lying on top of three hooded prisoners in the back of a pick-up truck, the AP reported.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11585468%255E1702,00.html
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Donald Rumsfeld and others are named in the complaint, lodged in Germany, over the abuses in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
It comes as the New York Times reports the Red Cross has told the Pentagon that US military methods at Guantanamo Bay have been "tantamount to torture".
The International Committee of the Red Cross criticised the psychological, and sometimes physical, coercion used.
The New York Times also said the ICRC found earlier this year that some doctors and medical workers helped plan interrogations of detainees "in a flagrant violation of medical ethics".
'Gruesome crimes'
These moves are further evidence that the Bush administration continues to be dogged by criticism of its policies on detention of prisoners in Iraq and its global war on terrorism.
The complaint has been filed with the German federal prosecutor by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights.
Four Iraqi citizens who, the group says, were the victims of "gruesome crimes" including severe beatings, hooding and sexual abuse, are jointly bringing the case.
The Center for Constitutional Rights says it has also called for an investigation into war crimes allegedly carried out by high-ranking US civilian and military officials.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4057531.stm