![]() ![]() military sources who hoped to demoralize the Iraqi insurgency, by showing the once-mighty Saddam, powerless behind bars. The newspapers say they got this photo, and others of Saddam in prison, from U.S. We've seen in the Abu Ghraib scandal for example only one senior officer, General Karpinski, really punished." Samer Shehata, with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University says, "I must say that in the Arab and Muslim world, there is not a great deal of faith in the Department of Defense and it's ability to investigate it's own wrongdoings. They're in clear violation of DOD directives and possibly Geneva Convention guidelines for the human treatment of detained individuals."īut after the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib, some Iraqis are skeptical about U.S. ![]() White House spokesman Trent Duffy says, "These photos were wrong. military said the prison photos appeared to be taken last year, some months after Saddam's capture, and that the Pentagon has already begun an aggressive investigation into how the images ended up as front page news. and its sister publication in Britain, the Sun, both splashed one of the photos across their front pages, Saddam Hussein, bare-chested, wearing only his underpants, a far different image than the former Iraqi dictator while in power, smoking cigars and firing guns. The New York Post, an American tabloid newspaper. military has launched an investigation into how Western newspapers obtained unauthorized photographs of Saddam Hussein in his prison cell.
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