By GottaLaff
WARNING: Graphic descriptions in second half of this post.
BULLETIN -- REPORT: PHOTOS PRESIDENT OBAMA REFUSES TO RELEASE SHOW SERIOUS SEXUAL ABUSE.Learning about the content of the photos is more acceptable than seeing them. I understand that argument, but eventually, inevitably, the photos themselves will leak out...or so I've heard.
Wouldn't the ObamAdministration have more control of the message if they released the photos on their own terms, instead of this kind of thing? In a court room or only to certain public officials, as they've done before? I'm asking for the sake of argument, not because I necessarily want that to happen.
And after reading what you're about to read, I can fully understand President Obama's change of heart.
It took some digging, but I finally found the source of the news. WARNING, some excerpts below are disturbingly graphic:
Yeah, that would tend to anger a few people.At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.
Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.
Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.
Detail of the content emerged from Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who conducted an inquiry into the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq.
[...] He has now confirmed their existence in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.
[...] Maj Gen Taguba, who retired in January 2007, said he supported the President’s decision, adding: “These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency.
“I am not sure what purpose their release would serve other than a legal one and the consequence would be to imperil our troops, the only protectors of our foreign policy, when we most need them, and British troops who are trying to build security in Afghanistan.
“The mere description of these pictures is horrendous enough, take my word for it.”
[...] The latest photographs relate to 400 cases of alleged abuse between 2001 and 2005 in Abu Ghraib and six other prisons. Mr Obama said the individuals involved had been “identified, and appropriate actions” taken.[...] Among the graphic statements, which were later released under US freedom of information laws, is that of Kasim Mehaddi Hilas in which he says: “I saw [name of a translator] ******* a kid, his age would be about 15 to 18 years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn’t covered and I saw [name] who was wearing the military uniform, putting his **** in the little kid’s ***…. and the female soldier was taking pictures.”[...]
Three detainees, including the alleged victim, refer to the use of a phosphorescent tube in the sexual abuse and another to the use of wire, while the victim also refers to part of a policeman’s “stick” all of which were apparently photographed.
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