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Rumsfeld bans camera phones
>From correspondents in London
May 23, 2004

MOBILE phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army
installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
The Business newspaper reported today.

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 cellphones with cameras have been
prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," it said, adding that a "total
ban throughout the US military" is in the works.

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. 


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