Congress Sees Explicit Lynndie England Photos
Bump and Update: Among the photos seen by Congress were many depicting Lynndie England having consensual sex with numerous soldiers in front of the Iraqi prisoners:
Shocking shots of sexcapades involving Pfc. Lynndie England were among the hundreds of X-rated photos and videos from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal shown to lawmakers in a top-secret Capitol conference room yesterday.
"She was having sex with numerous partners. It appeared to be consensual," said a lawmaker who saw the photos. And, videos showed the disgraced soldier - made notorious in a photo showing her holding a leash looped around an Iraqi prisoner's neck - engaged in graphic sex acts with other soldiers in front of Iraqi prisoners, Pentagon officials told NBC Nightly News. "Almost everybody was naked all the time," another lawmaker said.
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Original Post 5/12 9:15 pm
Members of Congress today were provided additional photos depicting abuse of Iraqi prisoners. What did they see? According to the Dallas Morning News:
- Military dogs snarling at cowering prisoners.
- Iraqi women forced to expose their breasts.
- Sex acts between male and female U.S. soldiers and forced homosexual acts between prisoners.
- A prisoner forced to violate himself with an object.
- A man beating himself against a wall as though to knock himself unconscious.
"I don't know how the hell these people got into our Army," said Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo., after viewing what he called a fraction of the images.
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