Good Job Australia!

kwright · #1 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006, 05:39 AM

I'm glad they finally are being shown.

New Abu Ghraib abuse photos broadcast in Australia
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Feb 15, 8:24 AM (ET)

http://reuters.myway.com/article/200...-ABUSE-DC.html
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian television station on Wednesday broadcast what it said were previously unpublished images of physical abuse of Iraqi prisoners inside the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

The Special Broadcasting Service's "Dateline" current affairs program said the images had been taken at the same time as the now-infamous photographs of U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib, which sparked international outrage in 2004.

While some of the latest pictures are similar to those images, others suggest further abuse in the form of incidents of killing, torture and sexual humiliation, Dateline said.

The grainy still photographs and video images show prisoners, some blood-soaked or hooded, bound to various kinds of apparatus, sometimes pictured with a smiling guard beside them.

Executive producer Mike Carey said Dateline had obtained a file of hundreds of pictures -- some that have been seen before and others that show new abuses.

He declined to say where the station had got the pictures from, but said he assumed other journalists or media also had access to them.

Some of the video footage apparently shows one prisoner abusing himself by bashing his own head against a wall, while other photographs appear to show corpses, said Carey.

The program said some prisoners at Abu Ghraib had been killed when U.S. soldiers ran out of rubber bullets as they tried to quell a riot at the jail, and resorted to using live rounds.

Carey said some images featured prisoners in sexually humiliating acts that were deemed too graphic to broadcast.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been granted access to the images under U.S. Freedom of Information provisions, but the U.S. government is appealing the decision, Dateline said.

ACLU lawyer Amrit Singh told Dateline the images were evidence of "systemic and widespread abuse" of prisoners by U.S. soldiers.

http://reuters.myway.com/article/200...-ABUSE-DC.html

Meribritt1 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006, 08:33 AM

I know I am gonna get raked for this but why dosent anybody care about our POW's? It seems that everyone has got to watch what the big bad USA does, but nobody cares if it is another country doing the torturing. No it shouldn't be happening, but if it were anybody else doing it they could care less.

kwright · #3 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by Meribritt1

I know I am gonna get raked for this but why dosent anybody care about our POW's? It seems that everyone has got to watch what the big bad USA does, but nobody cares if it is another country doing the torturing. No it shouldn't be happening, but if it were anybody else doing it they could care less.

who said we don't care about them? I certainly do, others do and our country has a firm stand on not negotiating with terrorists, so I don't know what can be done .

Sara · #4 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006, 10:32 AM

I'm glad its all coming out. This should not be acceptable to ANY country.

BooBoo · #5 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006, 02:45 PM

The news said they are from the same batch that were released before, seems the Aussies got hold of them and they have spread around the world fanning the flames of yet more trouble.

I say each one of these idiots who grabs up these photos and displays them in any 'media' should be taken to Mosul, and dropped off at the local mayors place for interrogation by the local authorities.

midwifemommyofmany · #6 (**permalink**) 02-15-2006, 02:53 PM

I know I am gonna get raked for this but why dosent anybody care about our POW's? It seems that everyone has got to watch what the big bad USA does, but nobody cares if it is another country doing the torturing. No it shouldn't be happening, but if it were anybody else doing it they could care less.

Well for me, I do care about our POW's and I think part of the issue with this is that ALL POW's should be treated according to the Geneva Convention bc it protects our soldiers as well. Thats the whole point.

As far as info leaking out...how is anyone supposed to know about it and change to be made *if* only certain people know about it? Thanks to certain Republicans who obviously don't support Senator McCain, the anti-torture legislation that he brought up got so watered down that it may as well say "US ok to torture prisoners".