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New Abu Ghraib images broadcast
An Australian TV channel has broadcast previously unpublished images showing apparent US abuse of prisoners in Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail in 2003.
The images on SBS TV are thought to be from the same source as those that caused an outcry around the world and led to several US troops being jailed.
The new images show "homicide, torture and sexual humiliation", SBS said.
They are part of a court case in the US. A judge has ruled they can be published but the case is continuing.
The broadcast of the images comes at a time of increased tension between Muslim nations and the West over cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
'Live rounds'
One of the videos broadcast on the SBS programme Dateline on Wednesday appears to show prisoners being forced to masturbate to the camera.
Other video footage appears to show a prisoner hitting his head against a wall.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4715540.stm
(CNN) -- More grisly photographs and videos have emerged that appear to show U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
The Australian television network SBS program "Dateline," broadcast the pictures and videos Wednesday night. The images reportedly date from 2003 -- the same time that previously released photographs of prisoner abuse were taken.
"We hope that the release of these photographs will bring about further pressure to hold high-ranking officials accountable for what we now know to have been systemic and widespread abuse occurring throughout Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay," said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Amrit Singh on "Dateline," adding that she had not seen the images.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/15/abughraib.photos/index.html
No one in the images broadcast on Wednesday could clearly be identified as US military personnel. Many of the images broadcast on Wednesday were more graphic than those previously published, showing what appear to be dead bodies, as well as wounded people and prisoners performing sex acts.
SBS said the photographs of the dead bodies were of people who had died at the prison.
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http://www.ibnlive.com/article.php?id=5415§ion_id=2
The new images show "homicide, torture and sexual humiliation", SBS said.
They are part of a court case in the US. A judge has ruled they can be published but the case is continuing.
The broadcast of the images comes at a time of increased tension between Muslim nations and the West over cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
'Live rounds'
One of the videos broadcast on the SBS programme Dateline on Wednesday appears to show prisoners being forced to masturbate to the camera.
Other video footage appears to show a prisoner hitting his head against a wall.
More
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4715540.stm
(CNN) -- More grisly photographs and videos have emerged that appear to show U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
The Australian television network SBS program "Dateline," broadcast the pictures and videos Wednesday night. The images reportedly date from 2003 -- the same time that previously released photographs of prisoner abuse were taken.
"We hope that the release of these photographs will bring about further pressure to hold high-ranking officials accountable for what we now know to have been systemic and widespread abuse occurring throughout Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay," said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Amrit Singh on "Dateline," adding that she had not seen the images.
More
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/15/abughraib.photos/index.html
No one in the images broadcast on Wednesday could clearly be identified as US military personnel. Many of the images broadcast on Wednesday were more graphic than those previously published, showing what appear to be dead bodies, as well as wounded people and prisoners performing sex acts.
SBS said the photographs of the dead bodies were of people who had died at the prison.
More
http://www.ibnlive.com/article.php?id=5415§ion_id=2
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Still and video images were broadcast on Dateline, a current affairs programme on SBS television, which appeared to show dead Iraqis and detainees being tortured by US troops.
In one piece of footage an Iraqi prisoner was seen slamming his head repeatedly into a metal door. A still image showed a naked detainee with multiple injuries to his buttocks. There was also film of naked male prisoners being forced to masturbate in front of a camera.
Some of the new images showed US soldiers who have already been convicted over the abuse scandal at the prison, which is just outside Baghdad, including Private Lynndie England and Charles Graner.
The original photographs of abuse - which included an image of a hooded prisoner with electric wires attached to their arms and piles of naked detainees arranged in "pyramids" - caused worldwide outrage when they were leaked to US current affairs programme 60 Minutes in 2004.
For its programme today, Dateline interviewed US Congress members who had been given a private viewing of all the images depicting abuse from Abu Ghraib, some of which have previously not been published by the media.
There were reports today that the US government was trying to prevent the new images being broadcast in the US.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1710360,00.html
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