Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Winning Their Hearts and Minds

“MORE photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.
Tonight the SBS Dateline program plans to broadcast about 60 previously unpublished photographs that the US Government has been fighting to keep secret . . .
The photos America doesn't want seen, The Sidney Morning Herald. “‘The abuses at Abu Ghraib have been fully investigated,’ Whitman said, adding that it is U.S. policy to treat all detainees humanely. ‘When there have been abuses, this department has acted upon them promptly, investigated them thoroughly and where appropriate prosecuted individuals.’” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman See, The Guardian; The New York Times ; Der Spiegel and Der Spiegel looks at two lives destroyed by Abu Ghraib

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