Aussie lawyer 'urged' Red Cross visits to Iraqi prison

[the Kelly Gang]

Aussie lawyer 'urged' Red Cross visits to Iraqi prison

By Roy Eccleston, Washington correspondent, in South Carolina and John Kerin
June 16, 2004

"AUSTRALIAN military lawyer Major George O'Kane had "aggressively warned" about possible Geneva Conventions violations at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and urged his American superiors to allow Red Cross inspections, according to the US general suspended over the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.

But Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski says she does not believe the Australian officer she calls "Georgie" knew anything about the notorious abuses that were photographed by guards from her 800th Military Police Brigade.

"Had Major O'Kane known anything about those photographs or anything close to those photographs, he would have come and told me," she told The Australian in an exclusive interview near her home in South Carolina. "

http://theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9858178%255E601,00.html

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1. kick

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[thebigidea]

2. what amuses me about all this is people considering the PHOTOS the problem

and not the actual uh, torture.

From Rumsfeld on down, it appears that the only thing top brass and civilian leadership care about is the PR nightmare of the photos getting out.