Rumsfeld orders ban of digital cameras, camera phones, etc.

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/
 US bans camera phones in Iraq
 Correspondents in London
 May 24, 2004

MOBILE phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army 
installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 
it was reported.

 Quoting a Pentagon source, The Business newspaper 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 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.

 Agence France-Presse


This report appears on NEWS.com.au.

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