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Thread #69284   Message #1181282
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
08-May-04 - 03:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
Subject: RE: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
And now of course General Miller is in charge of Abu Ghraib. Probably charging round trying to impound all the digital cameras and webphones and such.

Here's a link to a piece on BBC news about the way that modern technology is making it much much harder to make sure the outside world never gets to really know about what goes on sometimes. US powerless to halt Iraq net images:

...Mr Rumsfeld was indignant at the publication of such images: "We're functioning with peacetime constraints, with legal requirements, in a wartime situation in the Information Age, where people are running around with digital cameras and taking these unbelievable photographs and then passing them off, against the law, to the media, to our surprise."

However, he admitted that he had not realised the seriousness of the allegations until the pictures were leaked to the media...