masuki bance (479 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu May-28-09 10:29 PM
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White House denies report on rape photos
The White House is pushing back against a British press report claiming the latest round of detainee photos -- the ones they're not releasing -- contain images of rape.
"None of the photographs in question depict the images described in the article," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "Again, I -- I think if you do an even moderate Google search you're not going to find many of these newspapers and truth within, say, 25 words of each other."
A report in the London Daily Telegraph claims the detainee photos President Obama recently decided not to release include multiple images of rape and abuse. The newspaper's source is a former Army Major General Antonio Taguba, who invesitgated misconduct at Abu Ghraib. Per the report:
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.
The newspaper quotes Taguba as confirming the photos exist, saying "These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency." Taguba told the paper he supported Obama's decision not to release the photos. The Pentagon today also denied the newspaper's report.
"That news organization has completely mischaracterized the images," (spokesman Bryan) Whitman told reporters. "None of the photos in question depict the images that are described in that article."
The Telegraph surmised the "graphic nature" of the photos persuaded Obama to withhold them, after initially saying he would release them. Gibbs denied the report but said he hadn't actually seen all the photos. So who is telling the truth? Short of an independent review, the release of the photos would clear it up -- but the White House won't do that.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway...
Who's telling the truth?
:wtf:
Now I've seen everything.rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu May-28-09 10:31 PM
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1. Prove it.
asphalt.jungle (422 posts) Thu May-28-09 10:31 PM
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3. i'd rule out the torygraph ever telling the truth
piece of shit wingnut newspaper.
Let's recap.
Ever since Abu Ghraib, DU has accepted as a matter of faith that the photos depict the worst human suffering ever captured on film. There's RAPE. SODOMY.PANTIES ON HEADS. GOOFY EXPRESSIONS. BABIES EATEN.
Since Abu Ghraib, that's all we ever heard. Now, however, a British newspaper says there ARE such depictions. A British paper is backup up the DU claims. Ducky, right? Well, no. The Messiah has decreed that there are NO such depictions in the photographs.
What does DU do? Of course: they turn their back on the news organization that has verified claims they've made for YEARS, just because OBAMA SAID SO.
You craven, cowardly SHEEP. If Obama told you to jump off a cliff, which one would you pick?
