General: New Photos Could Be Used As Tool

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This has futher inflamed the Arab world--and will give us a license for more killing.



General: New Photos Could Be Used As Tool

"......The new photos drew strong reactions in Arab media as did the earlier ones.

"The two scandals confirm the image about the Americans known in the Middle East: that the Americans are not a charity or a humanitarian organization that is leading an experiment of democracy," said Sateh Noureddine, managing editor of the Lebanese leftist newspaper As-Safir. "Rather, (the U.S. government) is leading a retaliatory operation following the Sept. 11 attacks."


Noureddine said the photos "will definitely be front page news" in his paper's Monday edition. Yonadem Kana, a member of an Iraqi government advisory and oversight group, said the photos were "rare cases exaggerated by the media." ......

Sat, Dec 04, 2004
"http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=4&u=/ap/20041205/ap_on_re_mi_ea/prisoner_photos"

1 hour, 28 minutes ago


By SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writer

CAIRO, Egypt - A former military spokesman in Iraq (news - web sites) said Saturday new pictures showing apparent abuse of Iraqi prisoners were the acts of an isolated few but will be used by some to try to tarnish the entire U.S. military. .....