New Prison Images Emerge

Graphic Photos May Be More Evidence of Abuse

By Christian Davenport

Washington Post Staff Writer

Thursday, May 6, 2004; Page A01

The collection of photographs begins like a travelogue from Iraq. Here are U.S. soldiers posing in front of a mosque. Here is a soldier riding a camel in the desert. And then: a soldier holding a leash tied around a man's neck in an Iraqi prison. He is naked, grimacing and lying on the floor. Mixed in with more than 1,000 digital pictures obtained by The Washington Post are photographs of naked men, apparently prisoners, sprawled on top of one another while soldiers stand around them. There is another photograph 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. << ... full story available at the Washington Post

This abuse is an outrage.

It reminds me of the way Germans treated Jews in

1943 one of which was my great-grandfather.

For a long time no one did anything about the treatment of Jews by Hitler, we cannot allow this to happen to those prisoner. We have to practice what we preach.

If we do nothing and say nothing, about the Iraqi abuse, it's just a matter of time before they come for us.

The Iraqi's did not come to our land, we went to theirs.

They did not knock down our buildings in New York.