Salon.com releases new ABU GHRAIB detainee abuse photos and videos
Please read the Salon.com report on Abu Ghraib prison abuse
This report, released Wednesday, March 15, gives the public the most comprehensive portrait to date of detainee abuse at the Iraq prison.
Salon.com has published 279 photos and 19 videos the U.S. has desperately fought to keep from the public eye. In fact, international human rights groups have been battling the Department of Defense in court since mid-2004 to obtain the materials Salon.com released today.
Last month, Salon obtained from "someone who spent time at Abu Ghraib as a uniformed member of the military and is familiar with the CID investigation" more than 1,000 photos, videos and supporting documents collected by the US Army's Criminal Investigation Command (CID) during an internal investigation of abuse at the notorious prison. Salon reported the leak in a Feb. 16 article, and published some of the never-before-seen prison photos.
The material published at the site March 15 is the complete dossier of forensic evidence ultimately used in the CIDs final report on the abuse. The CID closed the case in October 2005.
Salon.com has published the photos with the CIDs original captions and used the CID documents it obtained to present a cohesive timeline of the scandal that unfolded at Abu Ghraib between Oct. 18 and Dec. 30, 2003.
"The Abu Ghraib Files" at Salon.com are: an Introduction, 9 chapters of photos in chronological order accompanied by editorial analysis, a video chapter and additional articles on prosecutions and convictions, other resources and Salon's methodology.
It is a lot of material and it is a lot to digest. The photos are, at the very, very least, disturbing. I consider them heinous.
I would recommend first reading the Feb. 16 article about the leak. It gives a concise summary of the material Salon obtained and will prepare you for the lengthy "Abu Ghraib Files."
This report, released Wednesday, March 15, gives the public the most comprehensive portrait to date of detainee abuse at the Iraq prison.
Salon.com has published 279 photos and 19 videos the U.S. has desperately fought to keep from the public eye. In fact, international human rights groups have been battling the Department of Defense in court since mid-2004 to obtain the materials Salon.com released today.
Last month, Salon obtained from "someone who spent time at Abu Ghraib as a uniformed member of the military and is familiar with the CID investigation" more than 1,000 photos, videos and supporting documents collected by the US Army's Criminal Investigation Command (CID) during an internal investigation of abuse at the notorious prison. Salon reported the leak in a Feb. 16 article, and published some of the never-before-seen prison photos.
The material published at the site March 15 is the complete dossier of forensic evidence ultimately used in the CIDs final report on the abuse. The CID closed the case in October 2005.
Salon.com has published the photos with the CIDs original captions and used the CID documents it obtained to present a cohesive timeline of the scandal that unfolded at Abu Ghraib between Oct. 18 and Dec. 30, 2003.
"The Abu Ghraib Files" at Salon.com are: an Introduction, 9 chapters of photos in chronological order accompanied by editorial analysis, a video chapter and additional articles on prosecutions and convictions, other resources and Salon's methodology.
It is a lot of material and it is a lot to digest. The photos are, at the very, very least, disturbing. I consider them heinous.
I would recommend first reading the Feb. 16 article about the leak. It gives a concise summary of the material Salon obtained and will prepare you for the lengthy "Abu Ghraib Files."