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Australian TV airs more photos of US torture at Abu Ghraib
Pictures of Iraqi prisoners—naked, wounded, covered with blood, women’s underwear draped over their heads, bound in painful and degrading “stress positions”—were broadcast on Australian television Wednesday, further exposing the horrors inflicted at the US military’s prison camp at Abu Ghraib and similar facilities across the globe.
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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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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Damning new photographs and videos purporting to show the abuse and even murder of Iraqi prisoners at the infamous Abu Ghraib jail have been broadcast on Australian television and picked up by Arab channels.
The images are likely to trigger outrage because they show more graphically than before the scenes of humiliation which took place at Abu Ghraib in late 2003.
Iraqis will be watching them on television days after seeing film of British soldiers beating up young men in the city of Amarah in southern Iraq and amid continuing Muslim fury over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohamed.
The 60 pictures appearing to show a man with a cut throat, another suffering from severe head injuries and a naked man hanging upside down from a bed were broadcast last night on the Dateline programme by the state-owned Special Broadcasting Service.
SBS said in a statement: "The extent of the abuse shown in the photos suggests that the torture and abuse that occurred at Abu Ghraib in 2004 is much worse than is currently understood."
They include photos of six corpses and injuries which could have been caused by shotguns. One reveals a prisoner with apparent burn marks on his left forearm and another shows a bound man in an orange jumpsuit being menaced by a dog.
Video broadcast by Dateline appears to show prisoners being forced to masturbate to the camera with another showing a man hitting his head against a wall. The still images show soldiers who have already been prosecuted for their part in the abuse, including Pte Lynndie England and Spc Charles Graner.
An SBS spokeswoman declined to reveal how the images were obtained but said that the programme, which specialises in low-budget reports from around the world, was confident in the credibility of the source.
"When the original Abu Ghraib photographs were leaked to the press, members of Congress were given a private viewing of photographs including the images which appear in this Dateline programme," said SBS. "They were shocked by what these extra images revealed of the full horror of the abuses taking place at Abu Ghraib."
The new pictures, broadcast at a time when anti-Western feeling is running high among Muslims across the world over the publication of the cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohamed, may finally torpedo the reputation of the US occupation in the eyes of Iraqis. The pictures were among dozens at the centre of a legal battle in the US to block their publication. They are among more than 100 stills and four videos taken at the Baghdad prison which the US administration is fighting to keep secret in a court case with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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