To Arabs, photos confirm brutal US
Nour Dandash stares with pursed lips at the photograph of naked and hooded Iraqi detainees piled in a heap before two laughing American soldiers. “It’s sick, horrible, disgusting,” says the 17-year-old Lebanese student.”The Americans say they went into Iraq to stop these abuses. But now they’re doing exactly the same thing as Saddam Hussein.” That is a typical reaction here to the graphic picture and several others like it taken by American soldiers guarding Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. Full Story