Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1114150.htm

This went un-noticed last month...

Mobile phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in United States Army installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The Business newspaper reported on Sunday.

Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes that some of the damning photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were taken with camera phones.

"Digital cameras, camcorders and mobile phones with cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," it said.

A "total ban throughout the US military" is in the works, it added.

Disturbing new photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse, which the US government had reportedly tried to keep hidden, were published on Friday in the Washington Post newspaper.

The photos emerged along with details of testimony from inmates at Abu Ghraib who said they were sexually molested by female soldiers, beaten, sodomised and forced to eat food from toilets.

[FlashHarry]

1. We were all over this last month!

So was Jon Stewart, as I recall...

[The Sushi Bandit]

8. I guess I took the day off!

[2Design]

2. yes yes the problem is the cameras not the policy.....

rumsfeld said that at the hearing and no one seemed to pick up on it.. he knew of the problem....just NOT the cameras....so we ban cameras but the torture will continue......great.....and we will court martial those who speak up, or take pictures to show the abuse.... first guy court martialed took the pictures..... not the torturers...not rumsfel...

sick country...very sick man....rumsfeld is evil

[physioex]

4. I doubt his policy can work....

Cameras are soo small, they hardly get noticed. There are several other possibilities like disposable cameras which you can purchase for next to nothing and send in care packets...

[Mokito]

6. Backward logic...If faced with a problem...

negate the evidence and the means of obtaining it, not the problem itself.

A sick man indeed! He never intends to drop the current 'interrogation' procedures, he just wants to make sure there can no longer be a possibility that any evidence of it emerges.

[MikeG]

3. In a related story...

The ghost of Richard Nixon has just banned tape machines.

[BlueEyedSon]

5. Ban Cameras, not Torture.

Problem solved!

[Miss Marmelstein]

7. Yes, this should make the soldiers happy.

No photos of the new baby.
No photos of childrens graduations.
No photos of family reunions that they can't attend.

Sometimes photos from home are the only thing keeping these soldiers from going around the bend. Rummy should go to Iraq and personally explain this new policy.

[ROC]

9. By the way, it isn't true.

My son-i9n-law goes week after next and his unit doesn't know anything about it.

[enki23]

10. not knowing it doesn't mean it isn't true

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