Investigative journalist Dahr Jamahl has posted photos from the video footage released by the Australian network SBS of American torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. You can view the photos here. Warning: There’s a reason American networks and newspapers haven’t been showing this. Some of these images are truly horrifying — far worse than those in the originally released round of Abu Ghraib photos. If you’re easily disturbed, stay away. Otherwise, although you’re likely to be sickened by what’s being done with our tax dollars, you owe it to yourself to check this out. Americans need to be confronted with the cold reality of what our foreign policy looks like. This is what it looks like. This is what we fund when we pay federal taxes.
Absolutely horrible!
I had seen these already a couple of days ago (maybe yesterday) and this time, I did not click on the thumbnails.
And you’re right, unless the reader is truly sensitive to graphic images – s/he should click the link to see what is done. What are the guarantees that these practices have been discontinued?
All I think we’ve been given are pile of steaming “reasons” to the effect that 1) we don’t really really torture people, but 2) when we do, it is essentiall and livesaving to do so, and 3) it is constitutional.
Straight out of the Josef Goebbels school of “truth-telling”.
That the lax security conditions that permitted the practice of unauthorized taking of souvenir photos, videos etc. has been corrected and tightened up.
When the first photos appeared US acted swiftly and definitively to enforce the prohibition of photographic equipment of any kind in all US “detention and interrogation” facilities.
It’s because of shit like this that I cannot bring myself to completely oppose the death penalty. The people who committed these acts, IMHO, should be tried and executed.
True.
But the people who ordered this to be done should be tried for crimes against humanity as well.
I couldn’t agree more.