Good news! It looks like the photographs of prisoners

being abused and tortured at Abu Ghraib prison have so

deeply affected War Secretary Donald "Rummy" Rumsfeld

that it has motivated him to implement a badly needed

reform.

According to an article published in several overseas

newspapers, "Rummy" recently issued an order

prohibiting all U.S. military personnel in Iraq from

carrying "digital cameras, camcorders and mobile

phones with cameras" while on the job.

That means the prisoners our boys and girls regularly

beat up, sexually molest, sodomize, and humiliate in

preparation for interrogation will no longer have to

suffer the indignity of being photographed while it

occurs!

What a great victory for human rights!



Last Update: Sunday, May 23, 2004. 10:00pm (AEST)

Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq: report

Mobile phones fitted with digital cameras have been

banned in United States Army installations in Iraq on

orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The

Business newspaper reported on Sunday.

Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US

Defence Department believes that some of the damning

photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib

prison near Baghdad were taken with camera phones.

"Digital cameras, camcorders and mobile phones with

cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in

Iraq," it said.

A "total ban throughout the US military" is in the

works, it added.

Disturbing new photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse, which

the US government had reportedly tried to keep hidden,

were published on Friday in the Washington Post

newspaper.

The photos emerged along with details of testimony

from inmates at Abu Ghraib who said they were sexually

molested by female soldiers, beaten, sodomised and

forced to eat food from toilets.

--AFP