New Horrific Abu Ghraib Photos Revealed
The new photos are a grim reminder of previous ones published by
US newspapers and aired by American networks. (Reuters)
SYDNEY, February 15, 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Australian
public broadcaster SBS Wednesday, February 15, showed what it said were
previously unpublished photographs and video images of the abuse of prisoners
in Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison by US soldiers.
"These are the photographs the American government doesn't want you to see,"
the SBS announcer said, warning that some of the images shown on the "Dateline"
program could be disturbing, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The pictures showed one man covered in what appeared to be excrement, another
with a gash in his throat and an interrogation room covered in blood.
Some pictures showed scenes similar to those already seared into the public
mind, including different angles of a hooded man with wires attached to his
fingers, naked men stacked on top of one another, a naked man hanging upside
down from a bunk, and terrified prisoners being menaced by dogs.
The man covered in what appears to be his own excrement was apparently
mentally disturbed and was described as a "plaything" of his American guards
who "experimented with ways to restrain him" rather than try to help him.
One man displayed what looked to be burn marks on his left forearm, while
another with serious head injuries was covered in blood and lying on a
stretcher.
A video image showed one desperate prisoner bashing his own head against a
wall, while other photographs appear to show corpses
The release of the photographs follows earlier pictures of abuse by US forces
at the Baghdad prison leaked in 2004, which provoked outrage around the world.
US President George W. Bush said in a January interview about the first Abu
Ghraib photos: "There's no question ... we were disgraced."
Iraq is not the only scene of US torture policy. A new UN report disclosed on
Monday, February 13, that the United States committed acts amounting to torture
at the notorious Guantanamo detention camp, Cuba.
"Full Horror"
Some of the US guards who have already been sentenced for their part in the
abuse, including Private Lynndie England, are seen in the new photographs.
A US military jury sentenced torture ringleader Charles Graner to 10 years in
prison last year for his leading role in the 2003 Abu Ghraib torture of Iraqi
prisoners. His former lover, England, was later sentenced to three years for
her role in the abuse.
"When the original Abu Ghraib photographs were leaked to the press, members
of Congress were given a private viewing of photographs, including the images
which appear in this Dateline program. They were shocked by what these extra
images revealed of the full horror of the abuses taking place at Abu Ghraib,"
SBS said.
The pictures are the subject of a legal battle in the United States, where
the government is trying to prevent their public release, the broadcaster said.
A spokeswoman for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Amrit Singh,
told "Dateline" that it hoped the release of the pictures would pressure the US
government to hold senior military officers accountable for the abuse.
A US court granted the ACLU access to the photographs under Freedom of
Information Act provisions but the US government had appealed the decision and
the pictures had not been previously shown publicly, SBS said.
"The extent of the abuse shown in the photos suggests that the torture and
abuse that occurred at Abu Ghraib in 2004 is much worse than is currently
understood," the broadcaster said.
A spokeswoman would not comment on how the photographs had been obtained, but
said the channel was "confident in the credibility of the source of these new
photographs and videos".
New Abu Ghraib Abuse Photos Broadcast in Australia
An Australian television station on Wednesday, February 15, 2006, broadcast
what it said were previously unpublished images of physical abuse of Iraqi
prisoners inside the US-run Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. The Special
Broadcasting Service's "Dateline" current affairs programme said the images had
been taken at the same time as the now-infamous photographs of US soldiers
abusing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib, which sparked international outrage in 2004
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