soldiers the only others with access to Saddam are his legal team prosecuting judge Raed Johyee and the ICRC. Lee would not confirm an NBC report citing Pentagon sources that Saddam was moved to a different cell in another location and that the photos were taken by 24-hour surveillance cameras.Īside from U.S. Saddam who was captured in December 2003 has been jailed at a complex near Baghdad airport named Camp Cropper which holds 110 high-profile detainees. Flora Lee Multinational Forces spokeswoman in Baghdad said the photos could have been from January 2004 to April 2004 "based on the background of the photos and appearance of him." "This is something that should not have happened" Whitman said.Īrmy Maj. military officials in Iraq believe the photos are "dated" perhaps more than a year old although no specific date has been established. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said U.S. Officials were trying to determine whether the images were taken from a surveillance camera or hand-held camera. Don Dees said the military will question the troops responsible for Saddam. military guidelines "and possibly Geneva Convention guidelines for the humane treatment of detained individuals."Ī spokesman Staff Sgt. military in Baghdad said publication of the photos violates U.S. Saddam's attorney said he will sue the newspaper "and everyone who helped in showing these pictures." The New York Post also published the photos yesterday. He would not elaborate except to say it was more than 500 British pounds which is about $900. Sun managing editor Graham Dudman told The Associated Press that the newspaper paid "a small sum" for the photos. military official it did not identify who hoped their release would deal a "body blow" to the insurgency. The Sun said the photos it published yesterday and today were provided by a U.S. He said the photos "add to acts that are practiced against the Iraqi people and of course we remember what happened in Abu Ghraib and we remember what happened in Guantanamo." "It is clear that the pictures were taken inside the prison which means that American soldiers have leaked the pictures" said Saddam's chief lawyer Ziad al-Khasawneh. Regardless of any effect the images might have on Iraq's insurgency they are certain to offend Arab sensibilities and heap more scorn on an American image already tarnished by the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison and allegations by Newsweek later retracted about desecration of the Quran at the U.S. More revealing pictures were published today in the British tabloid The Sun including one of Saddam seen through barbed wire wearing a white robe-like garment and another of Ali Hassan al-Majid better known as "Chemical Ali" in a bathrobe and holding a towel. Some Iraqis expressed anger but President Bush said he does not think the images will incite further anti-American sentiment. military condemned the publication of the photographs and ordered an investigation of how the pictures were leaked. The sharply differing reactions among Iraqis is a reflection of the sectarian divisions plaguing the country wracked by an insurgency led by Sunni Arabs favored under Saddam's regime but largely excluded from the new Shiite-dominated Iraqi government.
Two tabloids owned by Rupert Murdoch published revealing photographs yesterday of Saddam Hussein including one showing him naked except for his white underwear. Others said the humiliation is just what the imprisoned 68-year-old former dictator deserved.
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BAGHDAD Iraq - Some Iraqis said the photos are just the latest in a series of insults to Arabs and Muslims.
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