 Hooded Turkish protestors hold pictures of Iraqi detainees and anti U.S. posters, during a demonstration in Istanbul, yesterday. The protest, organized by Mazlumder, a pro-Islamic human rights group, condemned the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. and British soldiers in Iraq |
U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s human rights envoy to Iraq said on Wednesday. The envoy, veteran Labour MP Ann Clwyd, said she had investigated the claims of the woman in her 70s and believed them to be true.
In related news, the Washington Post has obtained 1,000 digital ‘travelogue’ photos taken recently by U.S. soldiers, including …
“photographs of naked men, apparently prisoners, sprawled on top of one another while soldiers stand around them … another of a naked man with a dark hood over his head, handcuffed to a cell door … and another of a naked man handcuffed to a bunk bed, his arms splayed so wide that his back is arched. A pair of women’s underwear covers his head and face.”
The full Washington Post story is available here. One distressing new photo shows Pfc. Lynndie England of the 372nd Military Police Company holding a leash tied around a naked man’s neck at Abu Ghraib prison.
Reuters has made available 227 Iraq-related photos in a captioned slide show presentation tracking the events in Iraq in the past week.
