ok, mine is not an attempt to discharge the u.s. soldiers at all, but why Xhenrrella Buthscososos have to distort news as the mainstream media do??
cbs only said that "Former Marine Lt. Col. Bill Cowan and former CIA Bureau Chief Bob Baer says: I visited Abu Ghraib a couple of days after it was liberated. It was the most awful sight I've ever seen. I said, ‘If there's ever a reason to get rid of Saddam Hussein, it's because of Abu Ghraib,'” says Baer. “There were bodies that were eaten by dogs, torture. You know, electrodes coming out of the walls. It was an awful place."

moreover
"It was American soldiers serving as military police at Abu Ghraib who took these pictures. The investigation started when one soldier got them from a friend, and gave them to his commanders. 60 Minutes II has a dozen of these pictures, and there are many more – pictures that show Americans, men and women in military uniforms, posing with naked Iraqi prisoners.
There are shots of the prisoners stacked in a pyramid, one with a slur written on his skin in English.
In some, the male prisoners are positioned to simulate sex with each other. And in most of the pictures, the Americans are laughing, posing, pointing, or giving the camera a thumbs-up."  http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/27/60II/main614063.shtml

whether this is true or not it is the only source we have and i don't see how Xhenrrella Buthscososos found the news of prisoners being force fed with flesh, eaten by dogs and forced to have sex.
i'm completely sure that u.s. soldiers are pieces of shit, but please do not deform the news as THEY always do. at least activists try be reliable when giving informations!

For the sake of accuracy:

 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/27/60II/main614063.shtml

it says on the cbs website that the photos in question are circulating. does anyone know where one can view them?

thanks

The same but different:

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3669331.stm

United States soldiers at a prison outside Baghdad have been accused of forcing Iraqi prisoners into acts of sexual humiliation and other abuses.


The charges, first announced by the military in March, were documented by photographs taken by guards in the prison.


Some of the photographs, and descriptions of others, were broadcast in the US on Wednesday by a CBS television news program and were verified by military officials.


Of the six people reported in March to be facing preliminary charges, three have been recommended for courts martial.


The program reported that poorly trained US reservists were forcing Iraqis to conduct simulated sexual acts in order to break down their will before they were turned over to others for interrogation.


In one photograph naked Iraq prisoners stand in a human pyramid, one with a slur written on his skin in English.


In another, a prisoner stands on a box, his head covered, wires attached to his body. The news show said that, according to the army, he had been told that if he fell off the box he would be electrocuted. Other photographs show male prisoners positioned to simulate sex with each other.

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"The pictures show Americans, men and women, in military uniforms, posing with naked Iraqi prisoners," a transcript said.


"And in most of the pictures, the Americans are laughing, posing, pointing or giving the camera a thumbs-up."


The program's producers said the army also had photographs showing a detainee with wires attached to his genitals and another that showed a dog attacking a prisoner.


The photographs were taken inside Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad, where US forces have been holding hundreds of Iraqis.


Gary Myers, the lawyer for one of the enlisted men who has been charged, said the military had treated the six enlisted soldiers as scapegoats and had failed to deal adequately with the responsibilities of senior commanders and intelligence personnel involved in the interrogations.


Officers at the prison, including a brigadier-general, faced administrative review, officials said.


Mr Myers said that the accused men, all from a reserve military police unit, were told to soften up the prisoners by more senior interrogators, some of whom they believe were intelligence officials and outside contractors.


"This case involves a monumental failure of leadership, where lower level enlisted people are being scapegoated," Mr Myers said. "The real story is not in these six young enlisted people. The real story is the manner in which the intelligence community forced them into this position."


A photo from TV shows naked prisoners positioned in a human pyramid. Photo: Sky News

Eight US soldiers died and four were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Mahmudia, a southern suburb of Baghdad, yesterday. The latest fatalities brought the number of US soldiers killed in action since the invasion of Iraq to 533.


President George Bush said in Washington that US commanders would take "whatever actions necessary to secure Falluja", a city marines have besieged for three weeks. Most of the city was returning to normal, Mr Bush added. But the city appeared anything but normal on Wednesday as US warplanes dropped laser-guided bombs and fired airborne howitzers.


The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters

Article:

 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/29/1083224523783.html

CBS link:

 http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/videoplayer/newVid/framesource2.html?clip=/media/2004/04/29/video614704.rm&sec=3475&vidId=3475&title=Army$@$Probes$@$POW$@$Abuse&hitboxMLC=60II