The Telegraph reports.
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.
Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.
At least now we know why President Obama decided to not release the photos...
It is absolutely disgusting. I cannot help but feel as if my faith in America has been shattered. What sort of disgusting men and women could do this? This is clearly not 'a few bad apples'. This is institutional rape on behalf of the military, the government, and the citizens of the United States.
Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.
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Earlier this month, [President Obama] said: "The most direct consequence of releasing them, I believe, would be to inflame anti-American public opinion and to put our troops in greater danger."
He is right about one thing. If torture photos from Abu Ghraib inspired men to travel to Iraq to fight the United States Army occupation, what would happen if images of men in United States Army uniform raping people were released?
Among the graphic statements, which were later released under US freedom of information laws, is that of Kasim Mehaddi Hilas in which he says: "I saw [name of a translator] ******* a kid, his age would be about 15 to 18 years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn’t covered and I saw [name] who was wearing the military uniform, putting his **** in the little kid’s ***.... and the female soldier was taking pictures."
Disgusting. Shameful. Do we wonder why America is hated? Do we wonder why young men are willing to give their lives to fight against our country?
Should the information in this article prove true, criminal charges for all involved (from the privates grinning in the picture all the way to George W. Bush) will never be more apparent.
Charge them and hang the filth from the gallows.