Female Foreign Correspondents' Code Of Silence, Finally Broken

Report: Unreleased Abu Ghraib Abuse Photos 'Show Rape'


Despite Obama's claims that they 'are not particular­ly sensationa­l,' Maj Gen. Antonio Taguba says photos show 'torture, rape and every indecency.­'

At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.

Further photograph­s are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphores­cent tube.

Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.

Detail of the content emerged from Major General Antonio Taguba, the former army officer who conducted an inquiry into the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq.

Allegation­s of rape and abuse were included in his 2004 report but the fact there were photograph­s was never revealed. He has now confirmed their existence in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.

The graphic nature of some of the images may explain the U.S. President'­s attempts to block the release of an estimated 2,000 photograph­s from prisons in Iraq and Afghanista­n despite an earlier promise to allow them to be published.

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