2004-07-15

US government has videotapes of children being sodomized at Abu Ghraib

Holy Fuck. If this is true...

According to The Poor Man:

Seymour Hersh says the US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

"The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking," the reporter told an ACLU convention last week. Hersh says there was "a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher." ...

"The disaffecion inside the Pentagon is extremeley accute," Hersh says. He tells the story of an officer telling Rumsfeld how bad things are, and Rummy turning to a ranking general yes-man who reassured him that things are just fine. Says Hersh, "The Secretary of Defense is simply incapable of hearing what he doesn’t want to hear."

Found via the Sister Novena

Edit, 7/16/2004: There's more info in this post at Boing Boing.

A few links: Real Media clip of Seymour Hersh speaking at an ACLU event. Also, check Geraldine Sealey at Salon on Hersh's remarks.