In an image
broadcast by CBS, a soldier
makes a gesture at a hooded, naked prisoner.
Actual blurred photo shown on CBS 60
Minutes ... and Photo retouched
Another photo shows what is apparently an Iraqi prisoner
standing on a box
with head covered and wires attached to hands.
Actual photo with hood over face -and retouched Photo without hood?
Here is how Al Jazzera reports on the US to the Arab and Muslim World
The US Liberal Media
and Arab Media continuously ran the story of abused Iraqi Terrorists and showed photos...
(we believe some may have been hoaxed (retouched/image additions to backgrounds). See
above for examples
As others condemned the reported abuse of Iraqi prisoners, U.S. Sen. James Inhofe
expressed outrage at the outcry over the scandal and took aim at "humanitarian
do-gooders" investigating American troops. "I'm probably not the only one up at
this table that is more outraged by the outrage than we are by the treatment,"
Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican and an outspoken conservative, told a U.S. Senate hearing
probing the case.
In heated remarks at odds with others on the Senate Armed Services Committee who
criticized the U.S. military's handling of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison outside
Baghdad, Inhofe said American sympathies should lie with U.S. troops. "I am also
outraged that we have so many humanitarian do-gooders right now crawling all over these
prisons looking for human rights violations, while our troops, our heroes are fighting and
dying," he said.
"These prisoners, you know they're not there for traffic violations," said
Inhofe, whose senatorial Web site describes him as an advocate of "Oklahoma
values." "If they're
in cellblock 1-A or 1-B, these prisoners, they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're
insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands and here we're so
concerned about the treatment of those individuals."
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During the clamor over the Iraqi Prisoner Abuse/Humiliation?....Eight US soldiers died and
four were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Mahmudia, a southern suburb of Baghdad.
Those fatalities brought the number of US soldiers killed in action since the invasion of
Iraq to 533. That information and the mutiliation of our soldiers and civilians does not
get the same ink from the pinkos in the US and abroad.
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Stung by a worldwide outcry, the U.S. military Sunday announced the first court-martial in
the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse allegations, ordering a reservist to face a public
trial in Baghdad on May 19.
Spc. Jeremy C. Sivits of Hyndman, Pa., a member of the 372nd Military Police Company, will
face a military court less than a month after photos of prisoners being abused and
humiliated were first broadcast April 28.
Both the speed of the trial's scheduling and the venue in the Iraqi capital underscore the
military's realization that it must demonstrate resolve in prosecuting those responsible
for a scandal that threatens to undermine the U.S. mission in Iraq and President Bush's
re-election chances.
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, announcing the trial date, said the proceedings would be held in
the Baghdad Convention Center, which houses the coalition press office, and be open to
media coverage.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Marine General Peter Pace, Vice-Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, insisted last week that the investigation into Abu Ghraib had moved
routinely through the chain of command, but retired and active-duty officers and Pentagon
officials say that the “the system had not worked,” Hersh reports.
“Knowledge of the investigation—and especially its politically toxic
photographs—had been severely, and unusually, restricted.” One former
intelligence official says, “Everybody I’ve talked to said, ‘We just
didn’t know’—not even in the J.C.S.” Noting that he was referring to
senior officials whom such allegations would normally reach, the official adds, “I
haven’t talked to anybody on the inside who knew—nowhere.” A senior
Pentagon official says that many senior generals believe that, along with the civilians in
Rumsfeld’s office, General Ricardo Sanchez and General John Abizaid, who is in charge
of Central Command, in Tampa, Florida, had done their best to keep the issue quiet in the
first months of the year. “You’ve got to match actions, or nonaction, with
interests. What is the motive for not being forthcoming? They foresaw major diplomatic
problems.”
An investigation began in January 2004 after a soldier reported the alleged
abuse to superiors, said, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the coalition's deputy chief of
operations.
United States soldiers at a prison outside Baghdad have been accused of forcing Iraqi
prisoners into acts of sexual humiliation and other abuses. Officers at the prison,
including a brigadier-general, faced administrative review, officials said.
The U.S. military said six U.S. soldiers have been charged with abusing inmates at Abu
Ghurayb prison, which was infamous under Saddam Hussein's reign. Of the six people
reported in March to be facing preliminary charges, three have been recommended for courts
martial. The program reported that poorly trained US reservists were forcing Iraqis to
conduct simulated sexual acts in order to break down their will before they were turned
over to others for interrogation.
The charges, first announced by the military in March, were documented by photographs
taken by guards in the prison. (If the guards were Muslims we may never know...Religious
Factions will most likely be witheld due to religious political correctness)
Gary Myers, the lawyer for one of the enlisted men who has been charged, said the military
had treated the six enlisted soldiers as scapegoats and had failed to deal adequately with
the responsibilities of senior commanders and intelligence personnel involved in the
interrogations. Mr Myers said that the accused men, all from a reserve military police
unit, were told to soften up the prisoners by more senior interrogators, some of whom they
believe were intelligence officials and outside contractors.
Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper in London, said, "It is
absolutely shocking. I think this is the end of the story, the straw that broke the
camel's back, for America," he told the UK Press Association. "People will be
extremely angry. ... Sexual abuse is the worst thing in that part of the world. It is
shocking to all Muslims. America has lost the battle completely. I believe there
will be more attacks."
Prime Minister Tony Blair condemned the pictures but defended the thousands of other
British troops serving in Iraq.
The front page of Saturday's Mirror showed a man dressed in fatigues urinating on a hooded
and restrained person. A representative of the newspaper told CNN in London that the photographs
were obtained from British soldiers who had returned from serving in the Persian
Gulf region.
And in most of the pictures, the Americans are laughing, posing, pointing or giving the
camera a thumbs-up."
Read your history books about Arab conflicts in the past. Arabs were wrapped in pig skin
and buried. Tactics in those battles, skirmishes and uprisings stopped the enemies
resolve. Terrorists and Religious Fanatics deserved what they got...pig skins, bullet
holes.....May God Bless Our Brave Armed Forces in these troubled times.
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