IMPORTANT: If you have DISH or DIRECTV in the U.S., you get LINK TV and you can see the shocking “Dateline” program aired on the Australian SBS public broadcasting network — reaired in full, without interruption — today at 7pm ET/4pm PT. LINK TV is aired on DIRECTV ch. 375 and DISH Network on ch. 9410.
This is the program that airs many just-revealed, leaked photographs and videos of detainee torture and humiliation at Abu Ghraib. Democracy Now! aired brief excerpts. Amy Goodman interviewed Olivia Roussert, reporter for SBS Dateline today:
[Some photos] show Lynndie England and Charles Graner having sex. But more disturbingly, the new photos and videos apparently reveal more torture, sexual humiliation and killings, seemingly perpetrated by soldiers at Abu Ghraib. This video shows naked men apparently forced to masturbate in front of the soldiers and their camera. Based on the [U.S. Army’s inquiry], we can reveal the following details … MORE BELOW:
This man listed as “Detainee 10” is thought to be an Iraqi general who was resisting relocation …
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[Another mentally ill detainee] was brought into the cells where the high value prisoners were kept. Known to the soldiers as “[beep] boy,” due to an alleged habit of covering himself in his own feces, he was left without psychiatric care. He apparently became a plaything of the guards, who experimented with ways to restrain him. He’s filmed here from several different angles, handcuffed to a cell, slamming his head into the metal door. The soldiers chose to film him several times from different angles, rather than try to prevent his self-harm. … Watch/listen/read all
Please let us know if you can watch LINK TV, and we’ll discuss it afterwards.