Solution to the torture problem: Ban Cameras

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Rumsfeld bans camera phones
>From correspondents in London
May 23, 2004

MOBILE phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army
installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The
Business newspaper reported today.

Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes
that some of the damning photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib
prison near Baghdad were taken with camera phones.

"Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have been
prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," it said, adding that a "total ban
throughout the US military" is in the works.

Disturbing new photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse, which the US government had
reportedly tried to keep hidden, were published on Friday in the Washington
Post newspaper.

The photos emerged along with details of testimony from inmates at Abu
Ghraib who said they were sexually molested by female soldiers, beaten,
sodomised and forced to eat food from toilets.

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9643950%255E401,00.html