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 News from Around the Americas | February 2006 
US Fraught with Scandals
 Prensa Latina
| | This handout photo from Australian broadcaster SBS TV shows a hooded prisoner allegedly being tortured at Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad in 2004. SBS has showed what it said were previously unpublished photographs of the abuse of prisoners by US soldiers in Abu Ghraib. (AFP/SBS) |
Washington - The revival of political scandals, such as US troops torturing Iraqi prisoners, are shaking the structures of US power, according to analysts.
The release by the Australian TV station SBS of new photos of prisoners being tortured in Abu Ghraib made headlines in the US media on Wednesday.
The US government´s debacle in countering the negative effects of Hurricane Katrina, the phone espionage case and the disclosure of a CIA agent´s identity are other ghosts lingering over the White House.
The torture scandal, which haunted the White House in previous years and jeopardized Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld´s post, has been revived by the new denunciations.
CNN showed some pictures of naked men, tied and blindfolded, which had been announced by SBS.
The Australian TV station also showed men with burns and shrapnel wounds on their behinds and arms, and the bodies of dead prisoners bearing signs of torture.
Reliable sources said that the photos were taken in 2003 but had not been shown until now, in contrast to those that raised world condemnation in May 2004.
The new criticism, which includes cases of homicide, torture, attacks with dogs and sexual humiliation, are proof of the lies of the occupying forces, who tried to convince world public opinion that the tortures were "just a few cases."
The media considers that the problem is more serious than what has been known until now.
The whole picture is still unknown, as the Pentagon prevented the release of 70 photos, claiming that they would raise anti-American sentiments among Arabs.
The revelations coincide with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice´s Middle East tour next week to gather support for Washington´s policy against Iran.
She will travel to Saudi Arabia and Egypt, where the people might strongly condemn her visit. |
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