Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Il peggio di Abu Ghraib deve ancora emergere?

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/29/report-contradicts-white-house-photos/
A new report appears to directly contradict denials by the White House and 
the Pentagon that abuse photographs the Obama administration has withheld 
are worse than previously known.
In a posting Friday, an American reporter says he's confirmed allegations 
printed in British newspapers that unreleased photographs of US 
servicemembers abusing prisoners include graphic images of rape, sexually 
explicit acts, sodomy and forced masturbation.
Probably most notable is an alleged photograph showing a man in a US 
military uniform receiving oral sex from a female prisoner.
The detailed descriptions of the photographs may provide new insight into 
what's actually included among the images the administration has said it won't 
release in response to a civil liberties group's lawsuit.
Scott Horton, a journalist for Harper's Magazine who also writes for The 
Daily Beast, wrote that the photographs "depict sexually explicit acts, 
including a uniformed soldier receiving oral sex from a female prisoner, a 
government contractor engaged in an act of sodomy with a male prisoner and 
scenes of forced masturbation, forced exhibition and penetration involving 
phosphorous sticks and brooms."
Specifically, Horton writes of a photograph that allegedly shows Specialist 
Charles Graner, the convicted Abu Ghraib guard made famous in already 
released images, suturing the face of a prisoner.
"The suturing appeared to serve no ostensible medical purpose than perhaps 
Graner's attempts to humiliate or terrorize the prisoner," he writes. "A 
number of the withheld photographs, according to reliable sources, show 
Graner engaged in sexual acts with Specialist Lynndie A. England, another 
soldier assigned to duty at Abu Ghraib."
England received widespread press coverage for the iconic photograph of her 
walking a prisoner like a dog.
If true, the images also would seem likely to enrage key constituencies of 
the Middle East - and be particularly offensive to Muslims. One picture, 
Horton says, shows a female prisoner "assuming sexually suggestive poses in 
a chair." Sexual humiliation is seen as particularly degrading in many 
Muslim countries, particularly when it involves women.
Horton's account does not include allegations floated by New Yorker 
journalist Seymour Hersh, who said in 2004 that the Pentagon has video of 
children being sodomized at Abu Ghraib.
"Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about," Hersh said. 
"The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, 
because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women 
who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been 
recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst 
above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your 
government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."
On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs vehemently denied 
British media reports which alleged that some of the photos show the rape of 
detainees.
"I don't want to speak generally about some reports I've seen over the past 
few years in the British media," he said. "And, in some ways I'm surprised 
it filtered down. Let's just say if I wanted to read - if I wanted to read a 
write-up of how Manchester United fared in the Champion's League cup, I 
might open up a British newspaper.
"Are you saying the report is completely false?" asked CBS reporter Chip 
Reid.
"I would refer you . to the statement that [Pentagon] put out, that the 
article is wrong and mischaracterizes the photos that are in question," said 
Gibbs. "None of the photographs in question depict the images described in 
the article."
A careful examination of Gibbs' remarks shows that he deliberately couched 
his response to refer to specific "photos that are in question," which means 
the White House could conceivably claim at a later date that even if images 
show graphic sexual acts they weren't the ones they specifically intended to 
suppress.
The Pentagon's spokesman, however, made no such caveat
"Whitman said he did not know if the Telegraph had quoted [a former general 
who spoke about the images] accurately," Reuters wrote Thursday. "But he 
said he was not aware that any such photographs had been uncovered as part 
of the investigation into Abu Ghraib or abuses at other prisons."
The British newspaper The Telegraph averred Thursday that "at least one 
picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while 
another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee."
Whitman said he did not know if the Telegraph had quoted Taguba accurately. 
But he said he was not aware that any such photographs had been uncovered as 
part of the investigation into Abu Ghraib or abuses at other prisons.
Horton's detailed account is available here.
On Thursday, after the White House spokesman denied the Telegraph report, 
RAW STORY ran a detailed story including multiple accounts from 2004 which 
suggested that - although these particular photos might not show rape or 
sexual assaults - there appear to be many unreleased photos and videos which 
do show such acts.
"The American public needs to understand, we're talking about rape and 
murder here," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), telling reporters in 2004 why 
the Abu Ghraib photos should not be released as former Secretary of Defense 
Donald Rumsfeld faced calls for his resignation. "We're not just talking 
about giving people a humiliating experience. We're talking about rape and 
murder and some very serious charges." 

 are worse than previously known.
ehi, Obama mente! Su, D'Avanzo, sputa le 10 domande al presidente
Obama! Su, Piddini, chiedetene le dimissioni! O ci sono bugie da
dimissioni e bugie buone?

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Non c'� bisogno di scomodare Obama, sarebbe sufficiente tirare fuori 
Fassino o D'Alema (per non parlare del loro CdA).
S.


#_Che non facciano vedere altre immagini non e`molto importante, imo; erano 
gia`abbastanza degradanti e raccapriccianti quelle che fecero il giro del 
mondo. Bastarono quelle per stabilire di che razza di "carcerieri" si andava 
trattando.
Quello che brucia di piu`e`che si e`chiuso quel capitolo con una bella 
passata di spugna sui record che sarebbero stati utili per risalire ai nomi 
pregiati di chi le promosse.
Il resto del mondo avrebbe diritto di conoscere quei nomi, anche se si 
possono ben immaginare. <g>
G.