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Date Posted: 03:40:18 05/25/04 Tue
Author: Omega
Subject: Re: a few comments
In reply to: mt. healthy mountaineer 's message, "a few comments" on 19:05:43 05/24/04 Mon

You will be surprised at what actually happened at the prison. You have only seen a few of the actual pictures. Before the new set came out, I had friends in OZ who had seen many of them, and told me that what the US got to see was just the "start" of a series.

The following quote, from the New Yorker, goes to express what was really happening. It is far more than any frat initiation. You don't have dogs biting privates!

"One of the new photographs shows a young soldier, wearing a dark jacket over his uniform and smiling into the camera, in the corridor of the jail. In the background are two Army dog handlers, in full camouflage combat gear, restraining two German shepherds. The dogs are barking at a man who is partly obscured from the camera�s view by the smiling soldier. Another image shows that the man, an Iraqi prisoner, is naked. His hands are clasped behind his neck and he is leaning against the door to a cell, contorted with terror, as the dogs bark a few feet away. Other photographs show the dogs straining at their leashes and snarling at the prisoner. In another, taken a few minutes later, the Iraqi is lying on the ground, writhing in pain, with a soldier sitting on top of him, knee pressed to his back. Blood is streaming from the inmate�s leg."

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040517fa_fact2 Has more of the story and more of what was really happening.

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Replies:

Every cop is a criminal -- mvd, 07:22:14 05/25/04 Tue
- Re: Every cop is a criminal -- Omega, 07:37:33 05/25/04 Tue
- You admitted to generalizing, but this is much too general -- Abba's Son, 15:09:45 05/25/04 Tue
- I think there is more to it than that -- Adilbrand, 13:10:29 05/27/04 Thu
  - On a more practical level, I'd have just given you a ticket... -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 13:59:09 05/27/04 Thu
    - That is an excellent example of what I was talking about (NT) -- Adilbrand, 15:35:02 05/27/04 Thu
    - And you would have been deficient -- mvd, 20:20:50 05/27/04 Thu
      - We all live different lives... -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 23:54:58 05/27/04 Thu
        Re: We all live different lives... -- mvd, 07:32:33 05/28/04 Fri
        Re: We all live different lives... -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 08:38:24 05/28/04 Fri
        Of course -- mvd, 12:08:41 05/28/04 Fri
  - I fully agree with Adilbrand...it must be "the day after tomorrow" (NT) -- Abba's Son, 15:34:21 05/27/04 Thu
re: a few comments -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 14:29:20 05/27/04 Thu
- a few comments -- Omega, 04:03:35 05/28/04 Fri
  - re: a few comments -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 08:40:25 05/28/04 Fri
    - Re: re: a few comments -- mvd, 10:09:57 05/30/04 Sun
      - Uh...No thanks. I think I'll pass on that. (NT) -- mt. healthy mountaineer, 12:50:30 06/01/04 Tue