Shock, Outrage Over Prison Photos

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Saturday, May 1, 2004

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Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the coalition's deputy chief of operations, said that he was "appalled that fellow soldiers who wear the same uniforms as us would do this. They crossed the line and violated every tenet we teach in the Army about dignity and respect," he said, adding that he was expressing his personal opinion and not speaking on the coalition's behalf.

European newspapers featured pictures that purportedly show abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. jailers.

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Photographs showing the apparent abuse of Iraqi prisoners by both American and British troops have been greeted with shock and outrage worldwide.

Baghdad newspapers have not yet published the photographs, CNN's Ben Wedeman reported.

One editor told Wedeman that he had hesitated because the images were so offensive.

The photographs of alleged abuse by U.S. soldiers, which were first broadcast Wednesday on CBS' "60 Minutes II" in the United States, were shown Friday by Arab television networks.

London's Daily Mirror newspaper published in its Saturday edition photographs that purport to show British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners, including one picture of a soldier urinating on a hooded detainee. (Full story)

CNN has not verified the authenticity of the images.

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Right now, their being used for investigation.

Dan