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Secret Film Shows Iraq Prisoners Sodomized |
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by by Charles Arthur (via MJ) |
18 Jul 2004
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my question is why don't we hear about any of this anymore? Is it not news these days? It's totally sick. Even in the title of the article, why isn't this considered rape? This was from the UK Guardian. I guess the PNJ is too busy trying to dig up feel good stories about the war to cover what war really is-death, rape, suffering, pain, misery. I hate this war so much. |
"Secret Film Shows Iraq Prisoners Sodomized"
by Charles Arthur
Young male prisoners were filmed being sodomized by American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to the journalist who first revealed the abuses there.
Seymour Hersh, who reported on the torture of the prisoners in New Yorker magazine in May, told an audience in San Francisco that "it's worse". But he added that he would reveal the extent of the abuses: "I'm not done reporting on all this," he told a meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union.
He said: "The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling, and the worst part is the soundtrack, of the boys shrieking. And this is your government at war."
He accused the US administration, and all but accused President George Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney of complicity in covering up what he called "war crimes". |
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Re: Secret Film Shows Iraq Prisoners Sodomized |
by marilyn
marilynb21 (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
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22 Jul 2004
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I believe that at CSpan's website you can find the whole ACLU seminar. Hersh's comments come at about an hour and a half into it. He intimated these tortures when he wrote his first articles. He says that the government has these tapes, and is afraid they will come out. I wish they would hurry and get it out...it is monstrous. |
