New Abuse Pics Emerge
Updated: 15:34, Wednesday February 15, 2006
This is alleged to be one of several shocking new abuse pictures that have emerged from Iraq.
The first shows an American soldier kneeling on top of a naked Iraqi prisoner.
Next to him is a what appears to be a pool of blood or excrement. Others show prisoners being beaten and humiliated.
The images were shown by the Australian TV news channel SBS.
It said they were taken at the same time as previous abuse pictures that emerged from the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.
It said the pictures proved the abuse by US soldiers was much more widespread than had previously been thought.
"These images reveal further widespread abuse including new incidents of homicide, torture and sexual humiliation," said the Australian channel.
This man claims he was beaten by an American soldier "The extent of the abuse shown in the photos suggests that the torture and abuse that occurred at Abu Ghraib in 2004 is much worse than is currently understood."
Other photographs showed a naked man hanging upside down from a bunk bed and another apparently being threatened by a dog. Another man displayed what looked to be burn marks on his left forearm.
Other pictures allegedly depict one man with his throat cut, another with massive head injuries and a third covered in what could be faeces.
Their release comes amid fury in the Muslim world, where anti-Western sentiment is raging over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Tension is already high in southern Iraq after British squaddies were filmed beating Iraqi rioters.
Publication of the original series of photographs provoked outrage around the world.
Last month, President Bush said of the first Abu Ghraib photos: "There's no question ... we were disgraced.
"Equally importantly, it gave the enemy an incredible propaganda tool."
