WaPo released 3 new prisoner torture via dogs photos WARNING GRAPHIC

[Snazzy]

(Which predictably flew under most people's radar, even us news junkies)

***WARNING GRAPHIC/BLOODY***

It was a sidebar to this frontpage story:

Use of Dogs to Scare Prisoners Was Authorized
Military Intelligence Personnel Were Involved, Handlers Say
By Josh White and Scott Higham
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 11, 2004; Page A01


U.S. intelligence personnel ordered military dog handlers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to use unmuzzled dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees during interrogations late last year, a plan approved by the highest-ranking military intelligence officer at the facility, according to sworn statements the handlers provided to military investigators.

A military intelligence interrogator also told investigators that two dog handlers at Abu Ghraib were "having a contest" to see how many detainees they could make involuntarily urinate out of fear of the dogs, according to the previously undisclosed statements obtained by The Washington Post.

The statements by the dog handlers provide the clearest indication yet that military intelligence personnel were deeply involved in tactics later deemed by a U.S. Army general to be "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses."

President Bush and top Pentagon officials have said the criminal abuse at Abu Ghraib was confined to a small group of rogue military police soldiers who stripped detainees naked, beat them and photographed them in humiliating sexual poses. An Army investigation into the abuse condemned the MPs for those practices, but also included the use of unmuzzled dogs to frighten detainees among the "intentional abuse."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32776-2004Jun10.html

Slideshow is here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/photo/world/G33343-2004Jun11.html

Here are the photos, un-slideshowed via antiwar.com:








EDIT: Noted via Walt Starr's thread here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1778721&mesg_id=1778721

EDIT2: Changed title to add WARNING GRAPHIC and 'abuse' to 'torture'

[DrWeird]

1. That's a piece of the guy's leg laying on the floor.

Support our troops!

[Snazzy]

2. there is a thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1776153&mesg_id=1776153

Didn't see it--GD overwhelms me, esp. most recently. I see the word Regean and I gotta go!

[TeeYiYi]

3. Not completely under the radar . . .

Here's the original thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1776153&mesg_id=1776153

TYY

[Snazzy]

4. Thanks, found that right after I posted

This week of Raygun mythology has caused some sort of attention deficit disorder in me.

Which is exactly what "they" were trying to do!

:hippie: