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05/13/2004:
"Photos show dead Iraqis, torture and rape"
By Marian WilkinsonUnited States Correspondent
Graphic new photographs and videotape of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison including images of dead Iraqis, prisoners being brutalised, tortured and forced to have sex, and female detainees being forced to expose their breasts have stunned members of Congress who saw them in a secure briefing room on Capitol Hill.
"There were some awful scenes", said Democrat senator Richard Durbin, "It felt you were descending into one of the wings of hell and sadly it was our own creation."
"There are a lot of dead people shown and a lot of people brutalised," said independent senator Jim Jeffords, formerly a Republican, but he said it was unclear whether the Iraqis shown had died in combat or after they were imprisoned.
"Take the worse case and multiply it several times over," said Democrat senator Ron Wyden. "I expected that these pictures would be very hard on the stomach lining and it was significantly worse than anything that I had anticipated."
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