CBS Obtains Photos Showing Alleged Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners

[displacedtexan]

CBS Obtains Photos Showing Alleged Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners by U.S. Soldiers

By David Crary The Associated Press
Published: Apr 28, 2004

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. soldiers stacked Iraqi prisoners in a human pyramid, and attached wires to one detainee to convince him he might be electrocuted, according to photographs obtained by CBS News which led to criminal charges against six Americans.

CBS said the photos, to be shown Wednesday night on "60 Minutes II," were taken late last year at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, where American soldiers were holding hundreds of prisoners captured during the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

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Kimmitt confirmed that CBS had obtained those photographs.

One picture, according to CBS, shows an Iraqi prisoner who was told to stand on a box with his head covered and wires attached to his hands. CBS said the prisoner was told that if he fell off the box, he would be electrocuted.

In another photograph, CBS said, prisoners' bodies were stacked in a pyramid, and one man had a slur written in English on his skin.

more (including info about the soldier who blew the whistle)...
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAB99SRLTD.html

[LittleApple81]

1. Oh my God! Send armed 18 year-olds to a different country, where

they are not wanted...

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. What is this

the US Press is TRYING to prove their independence?

There is a method to htis madness folks, there is a method... this is what a couple days before "armistice day", also known as Mission Accomplished day

[MnFats]

3. perhaps re-growing the actual spine..

...that the original Rather once had and the godfather of all of them, Walter Cronkite, who saw through the nixon-johnson bullshit and said so.

wow....what if there really were newspapers and broadcast news outlets that went after news aggressively, without fear of the consequences or favor toward those in power?
holy shit! what a concept!

[SeveneightyWhoa]

4. Gotta love CBS.

Who else would have the balls to air this? They've really been impressing me lately but they still have work to do..

[saigon68]

5. DISGUSTING PHOTOS

Part of the Army's own investigation is a statement from an Iraqi detainee who charges a translator - hired to work at the prison - with raping a male juvenile prisoner: "They covered all the doors with sheets. I heard the screaming. ...and the female soldier was taking pictures."