Call for inquiry into Abu Ghraib 'rape' photographs

[BlueJessamine]

Call for inquiry into Abu Ghraib 'rape' photographs

The Daily Telegraph

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5408038/Call-for-inquiry-into-Abu-Ghraib-rape-photographs.html

The demand from New York-based Human Rights Watch followed a The Daily Telegraph report this week. Major General Antonio Taguba, a former senior US officer who conducted an internal inquiry at the prison, confirmed that he had seen photos which appear to depict a soldier raping a female prisoner and a male translator raping a male prisoner as well as the use of objects in sexual abuse.

Scott Horton, a leading US human rights lawyer, wrote on the Daily Beast website on Friday that he had "obtained specific corroboration of the British account from several reliable sources, including a highly credible senior military officer with firsthand knowledge, who provided even more detail about the graphic photographs".

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Speaking nearly 48 hours after the White House was initially asked for a comment, Lt Col Patrick Ryder, a spokesman at the Pentagon, said the US department of defence had reviewed all the pictures, which did not include any of the scenes described.

He said he was "not aware" of any other photographs and was "not aware" that any such photographs had been destroyed.

[ClarkUSA]

1. This is Obama hitpiece BS by a notoriously rightwing UK Tory rag. Taguba has admitted...

... that the photos he's talking about are not the ones the Pentagon is holding back.

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8440821