More Bad News May Be on the Way for Bush
Kurt Campbell, a former Pentagon official during the Clinton administration, said it was too early to tell whether Rumsfeld would be able to keep his job.
“The real issue is there’s more stuff that’s going to come out that is troubling, beyond humiliation and torture. Deaths I think,” said Campbell, director of international security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“And there’s going to be quite a long record of warnings that were either ignore or dismissed. And that I think is going to be problematic,” Campbell said.
Troubling? Problematic?
Rape and murder feared in Iraq abuse
The unreleased images show American soldiers beating one prisoner almost to death, apparently raping a female prisoner, acting inappropriately with a dead body, and taping Iraqi guards raping young boys, according to NBC News.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said the scandal is “going to get worse” and warned that the most “disturbing” revelations haven’t yet been made public.
“The American public needs to understand, we’re talking about rape and murder here,” he said. “We’re not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience; we’re talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges.”
British quizzed Iraqis at torture jail
British military intelligence officers were interrogating prisoners in the notorious Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq even as the first reports of abuses at the prison came to light, The Observer can reveal.
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that three ‘military personnel’ were stationed at the prison, outside Baghdad, between January and April this year. Coalition sources in Iraq say MI6 also visited the jail regularly.
Blair calls for Muslim troops as riots begin
Tony Blair is to push for Muslim troops from Pakistan to be deployed in Iraq in a desperate attempt to shore up the reputation of the coalition forces following the widely-condemned images of abuse of Iraqi detainees.
The Prime Minister and Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon have called for ‘channels to be opened’ with Pakistan and India, which have said they will consider sending forces only if a United Nations resolution on the future of Iraq can be passed.
The move comes as the coalition operation faced fresh criticism last night and British soldiers were involved in the first major combat operations across southern Iraq since the end of the war to remove Saddam Hussein.