> http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/052504F.shtml > > Rumsfeld Bans Camera Phones in Iraq > Agence France Presse > > Monday 24 May 2004 > > Mobile phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army > installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, > Britain's The Business newspaper reported yeterday. > > 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 cell phones 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 in Friday's 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, > simonized and forced to eat food from toilets. > >
