http://ancapistan.typepad.com/unfairwitness/2004/04/us_says_still_b.html

^a couple photos and video

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3669331.stm

Just don't trust their Ireland coverage.

Its something that the United States does not do - Donald Rumsfeld

 http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21227/index.php
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/29/1083224523783.html

other photos avoided by USA corporate media:

 http://www.karmalised.com/archives/000493.html
 http://home.wi.rr.com/davef/iraq.htm

 http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/videos500251.shtml#

 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/27/60II/main614063.shtml
this is the CBS transcript of the entire 60 minutes program....this is really disgusting.

Quote:
"The elixir of power, the elixir of believing that you're helping the CIA, for God's sake, when you're from a small town in Virginia, that's intoxicating,†says Myers. “And so, good guys sometimes do things believing that they are being of assistance and helping a just cause. ... And helping people they view as important."


This sounds like the Nazis who said they didnt know or were just folling orders...they to were good people. Rumsfled himself said that when th eUSA invaded nobody could claim the types of things these soldiers are now claiming for themselves and expect to get away with it.

Support our troops...not my damn troops anyhow, but I damn sure dont support them or their masters. In fact I refuse to pray for their safety, and have refused such even before the invasion and have told people I know in the military that I will not pray for their safety when they ask me to. News like this makes me wnat to pray the exact opposite in fact...the best thing that could happen for this world right now is a defeat of the United States in Iraq. This country is out of control . . . not jsut the elite rulers either, but even us normal everyday "good guys" like these soldiers. Goddamn.

Us "good people" want a good guy in office like Kerry who shot civilians in Vietnam and now plays it up like he was a damned hero. Bush, Kerry, whoever it's all the same. the righta nd the left in the USA is full of shit.

:-(April 29: A photo from a CBS TV report - verified by US military officials - shows an Iraqi prisoner with a hood over his head, standing on a box with wires connected to his hands. US soldiers at a prison outside Baghdad have been accused of forcing Iraqi prisoners into acts of sexual humiliation and other abuses.

United States soldiers at a prison outside Baghdad have been accused of forcing Iraqi prisoners into acts of sexual humiliation and other abuses.

The charges, first announced by the military in March, were documented by photographs taken by guards in the prison.

Some of the photographs, and descriptions of others, were broadcast in the US on Wednesday by a CBS television news program and were verified by military officials.

Of the six people reported in March to be facing preliminary charges, three have been recommended for courts martial.

The program reported that poorly trained US reservists were forcing Iraqis to conduct simulated sexual acts in order to break down their will before they were turned over to others for interrogation.

In one photograph naked Iraq prisoners stand in a human pyramid, one with a slur written on his skin in English.

In another, a prisoner stands on a box, his head covered, wires attached to his body. The news show said that, according to the army, he had been told that if he fell off the box he would be electrocuted. Other photographs show male prisoners positioned to simulate sex with each other.

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"The pictures show Americans, men and women, in military uniforms, posing with naked Iraqi prisoners," a transcript said.

"And in most of the pictures, the Americans are laughing, posing, pointing or giving the camera a thumbs-up."

The program's producers said the army also had photographs showing a detainee with wires attached to his genitals and another that showed a dog attacking a prisoner.

The photographs were taken inside Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad, where US forces have been holding hundreds of Iraqis.

Gary Myers, the lawyer for one of the enlisted men who has been charged, said the military had treated the six enlisted soldiers as scapegoats and had failed to deal adequately with the responsibilities of senior commanders and intelligence personnel involved in the interrogations.

Officers at the prison, including a brigadier-general, faced administrative review, officials said.

Mr Myers said that the accused men, all from a reserve military police unit, were told to soften up the prisoners by more senior interrogators, some of whom they believe were intelligence officials and outside contractors.

"This case involves a monumental failure of leadership, where lower level enlisted people are being scapegoated," Mr Myers said. "The real story is not in these six young enlisted people. The real story is the manner in which the intelligence community forced them into this position."


A photo from TV shows naked prisoners positioned in a human pyramid. Photo: Sky News

Eight US soldiers died and four were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Mahmudia, a southern suburb of Baghdad, yesterday. The latest fatalities brought the number of US soldiers killed in action since the invasion of Iraq to 533.

President George Bush said in Washington that US commanders would take "whatever actions necessary to secure Falluja", a city marines have besieged for three weeks. Most of the city was returning to normal, Mr Bush added. But the city appeared anything but normal on Wednesday as US warplanes dropped laser-guided bombs and fired airborne howitzers.

Maybe, the photographs of naked Iraqi prisoners are a worldwide lesson of democracy ? God Damne America