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US Torture Pictures
New Yorker
April 30, 2004
Early this year, the senior U.S. Army commander in Iraq
authorized a major investigation into the American Army's prison
system there. The fifty-three-page report that resulted, which
was written by Major General Antonio M. Taguba and was not meant
for public release, was devastating. Taguba found numerous
instances of "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses" of
Iraqis by American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison, located
twenty miles west of Baghdad. This systematic and illegal abuse,
Taguba reported, was perpetrated by members of the 320th Military
Police Battalion, and also by members of the American
intelligence community. There was considerable evidence to
support the allegations, Taguba added, including "detailed
witness statements and the discovery of extremely graphic
photographic evidence"; the photographs, which were taken by
American soldiers while the abuse was going on, were not included
in the report, Taguba said, because of their "extremely sensitive
nature." Here are ten of those photographs; we have digitally
obscured some details.
The pictures you'd normally see here have been removed because they might offend someone under the age of 18.
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