- Young male prisoners were filmed being sodomised by American
soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to the journalist
who first revealed the abuses there.
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- Seymour Hersh, who reported on the torture of the prisoners
in New Yorker magazine in May, told an audience in San Francisco that "it's
worse". But he added that he would reveal the extent of the abuses:
"I'm not done reporting on all this," he told a meeting of the
American Civil Liberties Union.
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- 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."
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- He accused the US administration, and all but accused
President George Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney of complicity in covering
up what he called "war crimes".
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