Photos Show Rape of Iraqi Women
by US Occupation Forces
(Please Note: Many of the photographs showing the
rape of Iraqi women and the sodomization of Iraqi
POW's at the Abu Ghraib prison are now at USA
pornographic websites pointing to the possibility of
collusion between the depraved US soldiers in the
pictures and US based Jewish pornographers. Many of
these photographs were also freely disseminated to US
occupation forces, perhaps to inflame their nefarious
desires and to motivate them to strike out against
the Iraqi populace in these perverse ways.)
by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan
Los
Angeles, Alta California - May 2, 2004 - (ACN) The release, by CBS
News, of the photographs showing the heinous sexual abuse and torture
of Iraqi POW's at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison has opened a
Pandora's box for the Bush regime. Apparently, the suspended US
commander of the prison where the worst abuses took place, Brigadier
General Janis Karpinski, has refused to take the fall by herself and
has implicated the CIA, Military Intelligence and private US government
contractors in the torturing of POW's and in the raping of Iraqi women
detainees as well.
Brigadier
General Janis Karpinski said to the Washington Post that Military
Intelligence, rather than the Military Police, dictated the treatment of
prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. "The prison, and that particular
cellblock where the events took place, were under the control of the
Military Intelligence command," Brigadier General Karpinski said to the
Washington Post Saturday night in a telephone interview from her home
in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Brigadier General Karpinski, who commanded the 800th Military Police
Brigade, described a high-pressure Military Intelligence and CIA command
that prized successful interrogations. A month before the alleged
abuses and rapes occurred, she said, a team of CIA, Military
Intelligence officers and private consultants under the employ of the US
government came to Abu Ghraib. "Their main and specific mission was
to give the interrogators new techniques to get more information from
detainees," she said.
Today,
new photographs were sent to La Voz de Aztlan from confidential sources
depicting the shocking rapes of two Iraqi women by what are purported
to be US Military Intelligence personnel and private US mercenaries in
military fatigues. It is now known that hundreds of these photographs
had been in circulation among the troops in Iraq. The graphic photos
were being swapped between the soldiers like baseball cards.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, one Mexican-American soldier told La
Voz de Aztlan, "Maybe the officers didn't know what was going on, but
everybody else did. I have seen literally hundreds of these types of
pictures." Many of the pictures was destroyed last September when the
luggage of soldiers was searched as they left Iraq, he said
An investigation, led by Army Major General Antonio M. Taguba,
identified two military intelligence officers and two civilian
contractors for the Army as key figures in the abuse cases at the Abu
Ghraib prison. In an internal report on his findings, Major General
Taguba said he suspected that the four were "either directly or
indirectly responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib and strongly
recommended disciplinary action."
The Taguba report states that "military intelligence interrogators and
other U.S. Government Agency interrogators actively requested that
Military Police guards set physical and mental conditions for favorable
interrogation of witnesses." The report noted that one civilian
interrogator, a contractor from a company called CACI International and
attached to the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, "clearly knew his
instructions" to the Military Police equated to physical and sexual
abuse. It is not known whether these instructions included, or led to,
the raping of Iraqi women detainees as well.
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Iraqi POW Torture Photographs (Click Here)
A released Iraqi POW has come forward and stated to the internationl media that that he was sodomized at the
Abu Ghraib prison while a female US soldier cheered and the entire incident filmed.
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Related La Voz de Aztlan article:
The Rape of Latinas in the US Military
