http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/23/ ... index.htmlDefense Department to release abuse photos, ACLU says
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Defense Department will release "a substantial number" of photographs showing abuse of prisoners at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
The release will be in response to an open-records lawsuit filed by the ACLU, the group said in a written statement. The statement released late Thursday said the photos were taken at facilities other than Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
"These photographs provide visual proof that prisoner abuse by U.S. personnel was not aberrational but widespread, reaching far beyond the walls of Abu Ghraib," Amrit Singh, an ACLU attorney, said in the release. The photos are to be released by May 28, the ACLU said.
The Department of Defense announced in a letter addressed to the federal court on Thursday that it would release the photos.
In a copy of the letter posted on the ACLU's Web site, acting U.S. Attorney Lev L. Dassin said that 21 photographs would be released and that the government "also is processing for release a substantial number of other images."
The lawsuit was filed in 2004 after the Bush administration denied a 2003 open-records request by the ACLU.
The 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled last year that the photos should be released. The Defense Department will not appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, Dassin said in the letter.
Attempts by CNN to reach the White House and Department of Defense for comment were not immediately successful.
Gruesome origins of 'torture' tactics overlooked
YeOldeStonecat wrote:Ask Dan Pearls family.
Dan Pearl was murdered and he wasn't tortured. He had no valuable intelligence to divulge to the enemy. They knew that and we know it now as well. In fact, he was dead before they cut his head off...just as Berg was killed before his head was cut off.
Torture doesn't get them into heaven, murder does. Martydom does as well. They are big into abuse of corpse. They will slap the hell out of a decapitated body with a shoe...a real insult by their standards.
But they also don't need to gain any intelligence on us...we're right there in plain sight.
YeOldeStonecat wrote:And in reality you could be going by hearsay too...even if you're in the military, depending upon your job in the mil. We only have your claims to go by of what you are and stuff you're privvy too...we can take that we a grain of salt too. Heck, it's the internet.
Eh, not so much lol.
