Iraq prison torture was for fun, not results - paper

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&e=6&u=/nm/iraq_abuse_video_dc

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers who abused prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were not always preparing them for interrogation but were punishing them or simply having fun, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.


The newspaper reported on documents showing that military police staged some of the abuse seen in now-notorious photographs to discipline the prisoners for riots, an alleged rape of a teenage boy and other acts.


Some of the photographs have been widely published, among them shots of a pyramid of naked prisoners, a hooded man standing on a box hooked up to wires, and three nude prisoners handcuffed together on the prison floor. The Post on Friday disclosed a collection of new photographs and video images and sworn depositions regarding the abuse of detainees by U.S. soldiers.


On Saturday, The Post said it had a sworn written statement in which a military police officer said civilian and military intelligence officers frequently visited the prison at night, taking detainees away for questioning inside a "wood hut" behind the prison.
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[dArKeR]

1. Why did the US Soldiers allow a child to be imprisoned with adults and the

boy was raped in the cell with adults? Did the boy have a hood over his head too?

If the Arabs are so shy why would one rape a child in front of other male adults? No other adults stopped this rape?

How could moral and honest 'Whore' reporters publish a story like this without asking common sense questions?

Seems like a Whore Bush story to me.

[dArKeR]

4. Is it possible the prisoners were forced to have anal sex with children

and animals and pictures were taken to blackmail the prisoners?

[dArKeR]

2. Abuse: For Punishment And Fun? - CBS

Prisoners in three of the most infamous photographs of abuse to come out of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were not being softened up for interrogation by intelligence officers, but instead were being posed as punishment for criminal acts or the amusement of their jailers, The Washington Post reports in its Saturday ediitons.

The newspaper cites previously secret documents it obtained.

"Several of the photographs taken by military police on the cellblock have become iconic," the Post says, "among them the naked human pyramid, the hooded man standing on a box hooked up to wires, and the three naked prisoners handcuffed together on the prison floor. The documents show that MPs staged the photographs as a form of entertainment or to discipline the prisoners for acts ranging from rioting to an alleged rape of a teenage boy in the prison."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/30/iraq/main614905.shtml

[AP]

3. They are so afraid of having torture seem integral part of strategy

because that would be such a condemnation of our entire strategy in Iraq.

I just have to say that it is totally a part of why we're there. Why else was the Defense Department screening Battle of Algiers last fall?

http://rialtopictures.com/eyes_xtras/battle_times.html

[Tinoire]

5. Hey... We're just good old buys having "fun" n/t

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate, please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=573727