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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 07:01 PM
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Iraq Prison Scandal At Its Most Graphic
Photos of Iraqi prisoners being humiliated by U.S. soldiers popped up all over the Web last week as the Internet once again proved to be the place millions of people turned to get the scoop on a big story.

by Leslie Walker


While American newspapers tended to show restraint in how many and which prisoner photos they printed, lots of Web sites posted as many images as they could find in greater graphic detail. The Web also was where many folks went to read the full transcript of the U.S. Army's official report on conditions at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.

Among the sites publishing numerous photos of naked Iraqi prisoners in humiliating poses was the Memory Hole (www.thememoryhole.org) and GlobalSecurity.org (www.globalsecurity.org), a global think tank. GlobalSecurity also posted the full text of the Army report, along with satellite imagery of the Baghdad prison and other documents of the Iraq prison scandal.

Web logs ("blogs" for short) also posted exhaustive commentary about the naked prisoner photos that were first publicized on CBS's "60 Minutes II" two weeks ago, as well as about other disturbing photos that hit the Web last week. Blogger Christopher Allbritton (www.back-to-iraq.com) was among the online pundits who suggested a set of pictures purportedly showing men in U.S. Army uniforms raping an Iraqi woman had been faked.

http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=7126
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drfemoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 07:05 PM
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1. looks like the memory hole
site has been pulled by the host ...
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 07:06 PM
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2. "Pulled"?
Edited on Mon May-10-04 07:07 PM by Just Me
Good thing that network has multiple volunteers to back-up.

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drfemoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 07:08 PM
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3. There one day gone the next :shrug:
Edited on Mon May-10-04 07:10 PM by drfemoe
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cached page:
http://www.google.as/search?q=cache:LKZzqpiDK_EJ:www.thememoryhole.org/war/coffin_photos/dover/+the+memory+hole&hl=en

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http://alumni.umbc.edu/~akoont1/tmh/
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 07:10 PM
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4. They have been "CENSORED"!!!!
The neofascistcons will NEVER be able to control this,...no matter what their wildest utopian fantasies of empire.
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crossroads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 08:22 PM
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5. I hate to think so but...
they have been "offline" since about 5 pm central time. The first time I ever saw the site 'down' was during the soldiers coffins from Iraq episode. They do have a great support base tho.
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Say_What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 08:46 PM
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9. site is back up now....



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Say_What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 08:31 PM
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6. Too big, can't keep a lid on it. Every day new trouble...
and it's about f*ck'n time that these Nazis were exposed for the war criminals they are.

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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 08:39 PM
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8. GEN MYERS TRIBUTE TO UNMUZZLED MILITARY POLICE DOGS
SCHINDLER'S LIST



Ralph Fiennes plays a chilling Amon Goeth in the movie, and plays him to the point that some
people have had trouble distinguishing him from the real thing.

Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Schindler Jews, famously said, "When you saw Göeth, you saw
death."



GENERAL MYERS TRIBUTE TO AMON GOETH



THIS IS GOING OVER REAL WELL IN EUROPE THE OLD MEMORIES OF THE
GERMAN REICH AND THE DOGS WHO ENFORCED DISCIPLINE STILL RESONATE IN
THE MINDS OF THE TORTURED
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Say_What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 09:00 PM
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10. Letters from Iraq and elsewhere about the torture
in this BBC article:

<clips>

..."As an Iraqi, I was not shocked by the images of torture in Abu Ghraib ," Ali Kamal from Baghdad in Iraq wrote to BBCPersian.com.

"This is not new to us. The only difference now is that we can talk about it and denounce it, but we are still being subjected to it."

..."I never expected such mistreatment from soldiers of civilised nations"

..."Bush said the Americans don't do things like that in America. He is right... they do it to Iraqis and anyone else who they deem sub-human," he wrote.

"These people are a disgrace to mankind."

...Nazir Khan from the United Arab Emirates said that he "never thought the good American soldiers were capable of such inhumanity".

"Now I know why the Iraqis are going against the Americans," he added.

"Thank you, whoever published these snaps, for opening our eyes."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3700345.stm




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crossroads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-04 08:38 PM
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7. I saw some of the rape pics...
not sure if the ones I saw are supposed to be the 'fake' ones the blogger spoke of.

I saw about 6 pics of men raping a copper skinned Iraqi woman, but the site has now been pulled from or disappeared from the web. Who knows if that is the faked ones or not. No telling what is still out there. The photos I saw were pretty graphic! I copied one of them to my PC, but it is way too graphic to share. :mad:
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