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Rummy's plan re: prisoner abuse


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MOBILE phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The Business newspaper reported today.

 

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 cellphones with cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," it said, adding that a "total ban throughout the US military" is in the works.

 

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That's a plan -- without any pictures it didn't happen :unsure:

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It's a prison. Ever see pics of Cook County or Statesville inmates striking a pose? Their mugshot not with standing?

The ban is NOT on image recording devices in the prisons, it is on all US army installations in Iraq.

 

The first sentence of the clip: "MOBILE phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq."

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It's a prison. Ever see pics of Cook County or Statesville inmates striking a pose? Their mugshot not with standing?

Yeah, it turns out it was a stunningly bad idea. But except for the less than 9% of the US population who are still trying desparately to believe the "few bad apples/fraternity pranks" storyline, it has become clear that documenting the abuse was part of the orders, really f***ing dumb though the orders were.

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