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Karen
02-16-2006, 03:09 PM
Beware! Images of your government at work. Tortured people, dead and alive. We need to see thse. This is OUR tax dollars at work! This is OUR government at work! What should we expect from people who violently kill beautiful birds for fun and relaxation?
https://www.uruknet.info/?s1=55&p=20656&s2=15

The Torture Photos Congress Didn’t Want Us to See
by Lila Rajiva

Yesterday, Australia’s public broadcaster, SBS, aired some 60 unpublished photos of torture at Abu Ghraib (https://www.uruknet.info/?s1=55&p=20656&s2=15) prison on its show Dateline at 8:30 PM. The images were rapidly re-broadcast on Arab TV and other news outfits and have been condemned immediately as violations of international law by the International Red Cross. The new detainee diorama -- a world exclusive, apparently -- includes pictures of bleeding and hooded prisoners bound to beds and doors, of naked men handcuffed together or in a pile, of corpses, of dogs snarling at the faces of prisoners, of cigarette burns on buttocks and wounds from shotgun pellets, and of even more graphic sexual torture. And it comes on the heels of a British video showing British soldiers brutally assaulting unarmed Iraqi teens in Basra. No one can now question that criminal behavior was rampant among Coalition Forces.....( full article (https://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb06/Rajiva16.htm))

Karen
02-17-2006, 12:54 AM
https://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/16/abu_ghraib/
Salon has published more pictures and an interesting story about recieving more than 1,000 photos and videos of abuse and evidence of murder. U may want to read the story first to decide if you want to look at the photos. Either one will stick with you. ~karen


Beware! Images of your government at work. Tortured people, dead and alive. We need to see thse. This is OUR tax dollars at work! This is OUR government at work! What should we expect from people who violently kill beautiful birds for fun and relaxation?
https://www.uruknet.info/?s1=55&p=20656&s2=15

The Torture Photos Congress Didn’t Want Us to See
by Lila Rajiva

Yesterday, Australia’s public broadcaster, SBS, aired some 60 unpublished photos of torture at Abu Ghraib (https://www.uruknet.info/?s1=55&p=20656&s2=15) prison on its show Dateline at 8:30 PM. The images were rapidly re-broadcast on Arab TV and other news outfits and have been condemned immediately as violations of international law by the International Red Cross. The new detainee diorama -- a world exclusive, apparently -- includes pictures of bleeding and hooded prisoners bound to beds and doors, of naked men handcuffed together or in a pile, of corpses, of dogs snarling at the faces of prisoners, of cigarette burns on buttocks and wounds from shotgun pellets, and of even more graphic sexual torture. And it comes on the heels of a British video showing British soldiers brutally assaulting unarmed Iraqi teens in Basra. No one can now question that criminal behavior was rampant among Coalition Forces.....( full article (https://www.dissidentvoice.org/Feb06/Rajiva16.htm))