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Depravity as 'Liberation': Justin Raimondo
How Wars Subvert Freedom: Alan Bock
Staying the Media Course in Iraq: Norman Solomon
Iraqis Say: 'US Out Now!': Juan Cole
US, Iraqi Views of Occupation Converge: Jim Lobe

 
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April 30, 2004
The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos

(warning: graphic photos below) (updated)

It’s the "liberation" of the Iraqi people – and it isn’t pretty….

These are just some of the photos that led to an investigation into conditions at the Abu Ghraib prison, once Saddam’s torture palace, and now run by the occupation authorities, as revealed in a shocking report broadcast by CBS on 60 Minutes II.

Brig. Gen. Janice Karpinski, in charge of the occupiers’ detention facilities throughout Iraq, has been dismissed from her post, and 6 U.S. soldiers face charges.

"This is international standards," said Karpinski, in an earlier interview with CBS. "It's the best care available in a prison facility."

Anybody can see that….

And even more disturbing screen shots made available from Global Free Press via TheMemoryHole.

These images are from the 60 Minutes II broadcast. CBS says that it has twelve of these photographs, though there are dozens more. Among them:

The Army has photographs that show a detainee with wires attached to his genitals. Another shows a dog attacking an Iraqi prisoner.

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