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07/22/2004:

"US soldiers sodomised Iraqi boys"

A US writer, who first revealed the abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison, says there are videos of American occupation soldiers sodomising Iraqi boys there. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said the Bush administration was holding the tapes of these acts.

"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," he told the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) earlier this month.

There was "a massive amount of criminal wrongdoing that was covered up at the highest command out there, and higher," he added.

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