New prisoner abuse photographs emerge despite US bid to bloc

[MikeWB]

Graphic photographs of alleged prisoner abuse, thought to be among up to 2,000 images Barack Obama is trying to prevent from being released, emerged yesterday.



By Alex Spillius in Washington
Last Updated: 10:21PM BST 14 May 2009

Images emerged from Australia yesterday where they were originally obtained by the channel SBS in 2006 in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
The shocking images of inmates in Iraq and Afghanistan were published just a day after the US president announced plans for a legal battle stop them ever being seen.
They risked provoking renewed hostility in the Middle East as Mr Obama attempts to build bridges with the Islamic world.


He is scheduled to make a major speech in Cairo on June 4 when he will launch his version of a plan to bring peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
One picture showed a prisoner hung up upside down while another showed a naked man smeared in excrement standing in a corridor with a guard standing menacingly in front of him. Another prisoner is handcuffed to the window frame of his cell with underpants pulled over his head.
Others yet to be released reportedly show military guards threatening to sexually assault a detainee with a broomstick and hooded prisoners on transport planes with Playboy magazines opened to pictures of nude women on their laps.
The images emerged from Australia yesterday where they were originally obtained by the channel SBS in 2006 in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal. They were not distributed around the world at the time but are now believed to be among those the president is trying to block.
Mr Obama previously committed to allowing thousands of images to be published but changed his mind after senior generals warned that their publication could place US troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan in greater danger.
The president's change of heart brought bitter criticism from the left wingers and the American Civil Liberties Union, which had brought a freedom of information case against the US government applying to see the pictures.
Pledging to fight the case all the way to the Supreme Court, the ACLU accused him of betraying his principles of open government and "complicity in covering up" the "commission of torture by the Bush administration".
"It is true that these photos would be disturbing. The day we are no longer disturbed by such repugnant acts would be a sad one," said Anthony Romero, executive director.
"Only by looking squarely in the mirror, acknowledging the crimes of the past and achieving accountability can we move forward and ensure that these atrocities are not repeated."
The White House legal team was yesterday preparing for a June 9 deadline to present its case that it would be against the interests of national security to make the pictures public.
The controversy came as it was revealed that the administration is considering detaining terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay indefinitely and without trial on US soil.
Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator, said after meeting White House lawyers that terror suspects deemed too dangerous to release could be jailed permanently by a new national security court.
Other options include revising the Bush administration's military commissions for senior al-Qaeda suspects that have been criticised for relying too heavily on hearsay and uncontestable intelligence information.
When he took office on Jan 20 Mr Obama ordered that the prison at a US naval base on Cuba be closed within a year.

[joeblow]

This is nothing. What about the videos of fathers forced to rape their own sons? Children raped in front of their mothers? Rooms full of feces and blood? Even AJ mentioned that the Pentagon's own report states those atrocities, these new "forced disclosures" are only a gate-keeping operaiton.

[Travis]

When this filth was first was exposed it was reported that those sick American bastards were rapping little boys and girls!

[mgt23]

wheres the source/link of the quote plz

[joeblow]

sick American bastards

Who were trained by one John Israel...

http://www.svherald.com/articles/2004/0 ... /news4.txt

In the report by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba regarding the alleged acts of brutality, abuse, and torture at the Enemy Prisoner of War facility at Abu Ghraib and other Enemy Prisoner of War Camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, Taguba said, "'Specifically I suspect that Col. Thomas M. Pappas, Lt. Col. Steve L. Jordan, Mr. Steven Stephanowicz and Mr. John Israel were either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib and strongly recommend immediate disciplinary actions ..."

[Tomas O'Crohan]

When this filth was first was exposed it was reported that those sick American bastards were rapping little boys and girls!

I would only remind you that these atrocities were and are being committed by the armed thugs hired by the criminal organization masquerading as "government." These are not "Americans" in any sense of that word that be recognized by most of us here in the U.S. These are trained animals doing the bidding of the criminal organization, an organization that must have its head cut off if anyone in the world hopes to have any semblance of being free and going their own way as they see fit and keeping the fruits of their labors instead of having their blood sucked by vampires. It's like the video clips of "American soldiers" shooting unarmed innocent Iraqi civilians for "sport." These are not Americans although they have the same accent as us and everyone here that I've shown these videos to have without exception recoiled in horror. These are vile creatures trained and set loose on the world by this inexpressibly evil criminal organization who purports to be "the government." It's a criminal organization that has taken over the powers of government and is unrecognizable and reprehensible to any thinking American born with a conscience. All these photographs should be released so the whole world finally understands that America has been taken over by an utterly evil criminal organization whose head must be chopped off forthwith.

[Travis]

When this filth was first was exposed it was reported that those sick American bastards were rapping little boys and girls!

I would only remind you that these atrocities were and are being committed by the armed thugs hired by the criminal organization masquerading as "government." These are not "Americans" in any sense of that word that be recognized by most of us here in the U.S. These are trained animals doing the bidding of the criminal organization, an organization that must have its head cut off if anyone in the world hopes to have any semblance of being free and going their own way as they see fit and keeping the fruits of their labors instead of having their blood sucked by vampires. It's like the video clips of "American soldiers" shooting unarmed innocent Iraqi civilians for "sport." These are not Americans although they have the same accent as us and everyone here that I've shown these videos to have without exception recoiled in horror. These are vile creatures trained and set loose on the world by this inexpressibly evil criminal organization who purports to be "the government." It's a criminal organization that has taken over the powers of government and is unrecognizable and reprehensible to any thinking American born with a conscience. All these photographs should be released so the whole world finally understands that America has been taken over by an utterly evil criminal organization whose head must be chopped off forthwith.

Guys do not be offended but they are Americans. I accept they may not represent all Americans but nevertheless they are Americans. The Iraq massacre is mainly being carried out by American soldiers. We need to be against all criminals not just ones who claim to be Jewish!

[kolnidre]

It's worth recalling that the last time prisoner abuse photos came out we were hit with a huge diversion, the Nicolas Berg hoax. Despite the obvious proof that Berg was not beheaded while alive, and clear evidence to suspect that there was considerable video manipulation, plus plenty of circumstantial evidence to show that the "Muslims" in the videos were some kind of special forces (coalition of the killing, Israeli, etc.), the result was more fodder for the stereotype of Muslims as crazed terrorists. It also had the benefit of having a Jewish victim, whose career and death were highly suspicious but whose murder was certainly horrific and tragic.

[LordLindsey]

Can ANY of you tell me the last time ANYONE was beheaded in Iraq?   :idea:  :?:  :!:   That's the point...after the effect was gained from the American people and the others in the world to HATE the Muslims and "show" how they are nothing but savages with these "videos," there was no more need for the shock effect so these ops were stopped.  I always knew how fake the Berg deal was because of the fake scream/inconsistencies in sound synch and a few other obvious problems with the video.  

What I want all of you to understand is that the reason that so many "educated" people in the world are so brainwashed is because of the lies that they are shown in horrific detail by the letter agencies across the world who work together for the same Zionist team.  By keeping the photos and videos of the GENUINE RAPE,TORTURE, AND MURDER of these prisoners, and OF THEIR CHILDREN--OFTEN IN FRONT OF THEIR PARENTS--you can see the double-standard and outright FABRICATION that was created to brainwash the world against the enemies of Zion; now the proof of evil can no longer be contained because people are FUCKING SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of the lies and evil being done in OUR names because OUR nations have allowed these atrocities to be committed, with the perpetrators having absolutely no fear whatsoever of being brought to justice because THEY CONTROL THE WHOLE SYSTEM FROM THE TOP/DOWN.  

Good human beings like Seymour Hersch is doing everything that he can to expose to the world the horrors done to human beings by the "civilized Western powers," and he is Jewish.  The members of the House and Senate have kept the facts and photos and videos from the people of the WORLD, but slowly and surely all of this is leaking-out because the good people within our governments can not have this SHIT on their conscience any longer.  My point is that unlike the FAKE BEHEADING VIDEOS AND REAL ATROCITIES DONE TO FRAME-UP THE "EVIL ARABS," these videos and photos showing the truth of the Zionist wars of aggression and their results are the litmus test to prove that when something is REAL AND SHOWS THE WORLD THE TRUTH OF HOW EVIL 'THE CIVILIZED POWERS" CAN BE, it can never be allowed to be seen because all of that hard-work that went into brainwashing the population of the world for the cause of the Zionist monsters will have evaporated into NOTHINGNESS.

I, as an American man, have nothing but disgust for those members of MY government who continue to hide the truth from the people of the world by keeping this evidence of CONDONED ATROCITIES BY THE HIGHEST LEVELS IN OUR GOVERNMENT under lock-and-key.  

NO MORE LIES; NO MORE DOUBLE-STANDARDS; NO MORE MURDER FOR ISRAEL.  I am NOT to blame for the crimes of my nation that has been taken over by murderous Zionism.

LINDSEY

[kolnidre]

Once again, going back to the previous round of abuses, the plot sickens:

Professor Ali Shalal, the prisoner who was seen in infamous photos wearing only a blanket, with a hood over his head and fitted with electrodes that look like jumper cables, spoke very clearly about being interrogated by an Israeli and a Moroccan Jew called Idel Palm, as well as US Army personnel. Then there's John Israel, reportedly a UK citizen.

Who's encouraging and conducting the abuses? Who perpetrates and spreads such inhumane, warped filth with total lack of empathy?




http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=13379