A British newspaper reports that the Pentagon has now banned all digital cameras, camcorders, and cellphones with cameras in military installations in Iraq, and a total ban "throughout the U.S. military" is "in the works." This is curious news, since recent events suggest that more digital cameras, not none at all, are needed on military installations....
RUMSFELD BANS CAMERA PHONES
News Interactive (Australia)
May 23, 2004
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9643950%255E401,00.html
or
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/23/1085250873479.html?from=top5
MOBILE phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army
installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The
Business newspaper reported today.
Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes
that some of the damning photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib
prison near Baghdad were taken with camera phones.
"Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have been prohibited
in military compounds in Iraq," it said, adding that a "total ban throughout the
US military" is in the works.
Disturbing new photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse, which the US government had
reportedly tried to keep hidden, were published on Friday in the Washington Post
newspaper.
The photos emerged along with details of testimony from inmates at Abu Ghraib
who said they were sexually molested by female soldiers, beaten, sodomised and
forced to eat food from toilets. |
