Saddam is from the past now, so what is the reason for this? It is bad work from the media. “This is an insult to show the former president in such a condition. Other published photos show him clothed and seated on a chair doing some washing, sleeping and walking in what is described as his prison yard. In Baghdad coffee shops, Iraqis watched as some Arab satellite networks – including Al-Arabiya – showed the front page of The Sun, with its picture of Saddam standing in his underwear. Others, however, said the humiliation is just what the 68-year-old former dictator deserved.
SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURE PHOTO SERIES
Some Iraqis called the photos of Saddam the latest in a series of insults to Arabs and Muslims. The woman can be seen wearing a headscarf, walking outdoors and looking forlornly in the distance. The man, grizzled and gray, is shown hunched wearing a bathrobe, leaning on a cane and holding a towel as he rises out of a chair. Anthrax.” who got her nickname for her alleged role in trying to develop bio-weapons for Saddam. They were identified as al-Majid, who faces charges for his role in poison gas attacks against Iraq’s Kurdish minority, and Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, a biotech researcher dubbed “Mrs. Since his capture in December 2003, Saddam has been held at a complex near Baghdad airport named Camp Cropper, which holds 110 high-profile detainees.Īlongside the photo of Saddam in Saturday’s editions, The Sun ran photos of a man and a woman. soldiers, the only others with access to Saddam are his legal team, prosecuting judge Raed Johyee and the ICRC. forces are obliged to “preserve the privacy of the detainee.”Īside from U.S. “Taking and using photographs of him is clearly forbidden,” ICRC Middle East spokeswoman Dorothea Krimitsas said. The International Committee for the Red Cross, which is responsible for monitoring prisoners of war and detainees, said the photographs violated Saddam’s right to privacy. “This is something that should not have happened,” Whitman said. military officials in Iraq believe the photos are “dated” – perhaps more than one year old, although no specific date has been established. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said U.S. Officials were trying to determine whether the images were taken from a surveillance camera or hand-held camera. Don Dees, said the military would question the troops responsible for Saddam. military guidelines “and possibly Geneva Convention guidelines for the humane treatment of detained individuals.”Ī spokesman, Staff Sgt. military in Baghdad said the publication of the photos violated U.S. Saddam’s attorney said he would sue the newspaper “and everyone who helped in showing these pictures.” The New York Post, which is also owned by Murdoch, also published the photos on Friday. He would not elaborate except to say it was more than 500 British pounds, which is about $900. Sun managing editor Graham Dudman told The Associated Press that the newspaper paid “a small sum” for the photos. military official it did not identify who hoped their release would deal a “body blow” to the insurgency. The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, said the photos it published Friday and Saturday were provided by a U.S. He said the photos “add to acts that are practiced against the Iraqi people, and of course we remember what happened in Abu Ghraib and we remember what happened in Guantanamo.” “It is clear that the pictures were taken inside the prison, which means that American soldiers have leaked the pictures,” said Saddam’s chief lawyer, Ziad al-Khasawneh. Regardless of any effect the images may have on Iraq’s insurgency, they were certain to offend Arab sensibilities and heap more scorn on an American image already tarnished by the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison and allegations by Newsweek, later retracted, about desecration of the Quran at the U.S. More revealing pictures were published Saturday in the British tabloid, The Sun, including one of Saddam seen through barbed wire wearing a white robe-like garment, and another of Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as “Chemical Ali,” in a bathrobe and holding a towel. Some Iraqis expressed anger, but President Bush said he did not think the images would incite further anti-American sentiment.
military condemned the publication Friday of photographs showing an imprisoned Saddam Hussein naked except for his white underwear, and ordered an investigation of how the pictures were leaked to a tabloid.
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