Iraqi Boys Sodomized At Abu Ghuraib

Juan Cole 07/16/2004

Iraqi Boys Sodomized at Abu Ghuraib: Hersh

Sy Hersh, the journalist who broke the Abu Ghuraib prison torture scandal, told an American Civil Liberties Union audience that film exists of young Iraqi men at Abu Ghuraib being sodomized by US troops. He said, “The boys were sodomised with the cameras rolling, and the worst part is the soundtrack, of the boys shrieking. And this is your government at war.”

Hersh believes that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are guilty of trying to cover up war crimes.

Does anyone else see an irony here? Isn’t this the same administration that just tried to tinker with the United States constitution in order to prevent government sanction for sodomy?

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page