The photographs, which also included images of battered and bloodied corpses, were apparently taken about the same time as those that surfaced in April 2004, provoking a worldwide wave of revulsion and anger over the criminal methods cultivated by the Bush administration in its occupation of Iraq and its “global war on terrorism.”

Their existence has long been known. They were shown to a bipartisan group of Senate and House leaders in May of 2004, eliciting expressions of shock and dismay, together with statements of agreement with the Pentagon that the images should be suppressed.

Last September, US civil liberties groups won a court case against the Pentagon’s refusal to release the photographs and videotapes under the Freedom of Information Act, but the government has appealed the decision, raising a last-minute claim for an exemption that allows withholding law enforcement-related information in order to protect the safety of individuals.

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