Washington Post displays new Iraqi prison photos

WASHINGTON – A new batch of photographs, some of which were published in The Washington Post, includes more graphic images of apparent Iraqi prisoners at a US military jail in Iraq, the newspaper reported on yesterday.

The photographs are similar to those broadcast on CBS’s “60 Minutes II” and published by the New Yorker magazine showing Iraqi prisoners in various images of humiliation, The Washington Post reported. In a front page photo, a woman identified as Pfc. Lynndie England of the 372nd Military Police Company, holds what appears to be a dog’s leash around the neck of a naked man at Abu Ghraib prison.Inside the newspaper, there are three photos.A group of naked men are bound together on the floor of the prison; a hooded, naked man is handcuffed to a cell door, and another man is bound naked and arched with his arms behind him over the top bunk in a cell.That individual is wearing women’s panties over his head.The new collection included more than 1 000 digital images ranging from scenes of mundane military life to pictures showing crude simulations of sex among soldiers.Some of the pictures also appear to show American soldiers abusing prisoners, many of whom wear ID bands.However, The Post said that it could not eliminate the possibility that some of those images were staged.The article said the photographs, taken from the summer of 2003 through the winter, were passed around among military police who served at the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad.Among the images is a picture of a soldier holding a leash tied around a man’s neck in an Iraqi prison.The man is naked, grimacing and lying on a floor.There are photographs of naked men, apparently prisoners, sprawled on top of one another while soldiers stand around them.According to The Post, the photographs were taken by several digital cameras and loaded onto compact discs, which circulated among soldiers in the 372nd Military Police Company, an Army Reserve unit based in Cresaptown, Md.The pictures were among those seized by military investigators probing conditions at Abu Ghraib, a source close to the unit was quoted as telling the newspaper.- Nampa-ReutersIn a front page photo, a woman identified as Pfc. Lynndie England of the 372nd Military Police Company, holds what appears to be a dog’s leash around the neck of a naked man at Abu Ghraib prison.Inside the newspaper, there are three photos.A group of naked men are bound together on the floor of the prison; a hooded, naked man is handcuffed to a cell door, and another man is bound naked and arched with his arms behind him over the top bunk in a cell.That individual is wearing women’s panties over his head.The new collection included more than 1 000 digital images ranging from scenes of mundane military life to pictures showing crude simulations of sex among soldiers.Some of the pictures also appear to show American soldiers abusing prisoners, many of whom wear ID bands.However, The Post said that it could not eliminate the possibility that some of those images were staged.The article said the photographs, taken from the summer of 2003 through the winter, were passed around among military police who served at the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad.Among the images is a picture of a soldier holding a leash tied around a man’s neck in an Iraqi prison.The man is naked, grimacing and lying on a floor.There are photographs of naked men, apparently prisoners, sprawled on top of one another while soldiers stand around them.According to The Post, the photographs were taken by several digital cameras and loaded onto compact discs, which circulated among soldiers in the 372nd Military Police Company, an Army Reserve unit based in Cresaptown, Md.The pictures were among those seized by military investigators probing conditions at Abu Ghraib, a source close to the unit was quoted as telling the newspaper.- Nampa-Reuters