[IP] Rumsfeld orders ban of digital cameras, camera phones, etc.
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US bans camera phones in Iraq
Correspondents in London
May 24, 2004
MOBILE phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army
installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
it was reported.
Quoting a Pentagon source, The Business newspaper 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 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.
Agence France-Presse
This report appears on NEWS.com.au.
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