Reminder: Abu Ghraib photos release is Thur 6/30

[Alpharetta]

Unless a huge terror attack happens Friday, the news will be dominated by 144 photographs a judge has ruled the Pentagon must release by 6/30.

The Pentagon is permitted to blur the victims faces so their identity is protected. That's why the judge did not force the photos to be released the day of the ruling, June 2.

By ERIC ROSENBERG
Hearst Newspapers

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is preparing to release another batch of photos showing prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, a step that is likely to renew criticism of the U.S.

The digital photos are from the same batch amassed by Army Spc. Joseph Darby, who was based at Abu Ghraib. Darby turned the photos over to military investigators last year. Later, some photos showing naked Iraqi prisoners being forced to simulate sex acts were broadcast and published.

Expect a code Red from the Homeland folks on Friday.

[Endangered Specie]

1. Same day as Nacht der Langen Messer,

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Night of the Long Knives...

oder die Reichsmordwoche. Well, the Bushies haven't felt secure enough to cleanse the party of the Fellow Travelers in quite that fashion as yet. I suppose the equivalents here would be the Libertarians. Maybe by their overreaching they will fail to get there.

[orpupilofnature57]

7. Always thought Kkkarl should acknowledge Goebbels, as one of his heroes

[many a good man]

2. Cancel the fireworks, lower the flag

I don't feel like celebrating this year.

[cyberpj]

8. Yeah, well.... Bush will be firing a missle at an asteroid for the 4th

So I guess we know how he feels.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. This batch won't have the same pizazz, Kkkarl's filter Blur's everything!!

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Just what I was thinking...

more than faces are gonna be blurred.

[uppityperson]

4. And Mr.bush is speaking 2 days before on "war progess"

[Bouncy Ball]

9. I will not be celebrating the fourth of July, either.

And neither will my family. None of us feel up to celebrating anything in light of the horrific things that our country's government has been doing. My God.

Some part of me just won't believe until I see it that these photos will actually BE released. Will they??? What media outlets will carry them, all of them, or what?