Pentagon Blocks Release of Abu Ghraib Images: Here's Why

NEW YORK So what is shown on the 87 photographs and four videos from Abu Ghraib prison that the Pentagon, in an eleventh hour move, blocked from release this weekend? One clue: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress last year, after viewing a large cache of unreleased images: "I mean, I looked at them last night, and they're hard to believe.” They show acts "that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhumane," he added.

A Republican Senator suggested the same day they contained scenes of “rape and murder.” No wonder Rumsfeld commented then, "If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make matters worse."

Yesterday, news emerged that lawyers for the Pentagon had refused to cooperate with a federal judge's order to release dozens of unseen photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by Saturday. The photos were among thousands turned over by the key “whistleblower” in the scandal, Specialist Joseph M. Darby. Just a few that were released to the press sparked the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal last year, and the video images are said to be even more shocking.

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“The embattled defense secretary fielded sharp and skeptical questions from lawmakers as he testified about the growing prisoner abuse scandal. A military report about that abuse describes detainees being threatened, sodomized with a chemical light and forced into sexually humiliating poses.

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Let the American people know what they are doing in the name of "Liberty" and "Freedom".

America will never be forgiven for her crimes against humanity.

yet again. Perhaps the faces can be pixilated.

I don't recall any mention of rape in any of the coverage of those trials. If the prosecutors had evidence of those crimes available and didn't use it, that would be a massive cover-up.

-Or could these same photos turned over by Darby involve other US personnel?

Seymour Hersh who broke the story first had seen these as well and described what was in them though they were not to be released at that time.

Obviously shrubco has no intention of ever releasing them, so they will either have to be compelled in some fashion, or the photos will have to be leaked.

the people who want to believe our country is doing what is right still think things like there was just "one seemingly isolated instance at Abu Ghraib".

It's what they want to believe.

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but they will come out; anyone with a brain in the Pentagon has got to know that. This cannot be contained indefinitely. If they control the release, at least they will control that aspect of the situation. If they continue to try and stonewall, they will lose even that small control...Morons...

We need 100 million marchers descending upon Washington, D.C., demanding that the military police arrest these criminals against the whole of humanity and deliver them to the International Criminal Court for justice.

The military has "conscientiously objected" long enough! It's high time these criminals were arrested and put on trial. There is no excuse any longer for letting these criminals wander about freely and maintain the pretense of command of anything. They must be brought to justice immediately.

No honest soldier approves of any of this. Killing in a course of a just war is a duty, not a fetish to be pursued in the course of criminal aggression. Sexual depravity, torture, and sodomization of young children is not what our generals and the patriots on the front lines approve of. The regime of these criminal deviants in the White House must be decisively ended, for the sake of those being victimized directly and for the sake of the conscience of our soldiers.

You who have the guns know what I'm talking about. You don't have to seize power illegitimately or sacrifice loyalty in order to accomplish this. The apprehension and extradition of war criminals, despite elected office, is a higher calling, a higher loyalty to the constitution itself than obeisance to a corrupt, illegitimate regime. Don't let a single one of your precious soldiers be made into war criminals by these fascists ever again! Arrest them and take them to the Hague to stand trial for their war crimes!