Raping of men, women and children at Abu Ghraib.

Retired Major Gen. Antonio Taguba is the second Filipino American to attain general officer rank in the U.S. Army. Taguba is best known for authoring the Taguba Report, an internal U.S. Army report on detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, leaked and published in 2004. Taguba again made national headlines in June 2008, when he accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes, in a preface to a report by Physicians for Human Rights on prisoner abuse and torture in U.S. military prisons.

Taguba most recently confirmed the existence of photographs showing:

At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator rap.ing a male detainee.

Sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube. Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.  Sodomizing men, women and children at Abu Ghraib.

Retired Major Gen. Antonio Taguba is the second Filipino American to attain general officer rank in the U.S. Army. Taguba is best known for authoring the Taguba Report, an internal U.S. Army report on detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, leaked and published in 2004. Taguba again made national headlines in June 2008, when he accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes, in a preface to a report by Physicians for Human Rights on prisoner abuse and torture in U.S. military prisons.

From the Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5395830/Abu-Ghraib-abuse-photos-show-rape.html

Taguba most recently confirmed the existence of photographs showing:

    At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee.

    Sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube. Another apparently shows a female prisoner having her clothing forcibly removed to expose her breasts.

In 2004 - New Yorker investigative journalist Seymour Hersh confirmed,

    "Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay?" said Hersh. "Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib ... The women were passing messages out saying ‘Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/07/15/hersh/index.html

Quoting Taguba:

    "These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency.... I am not sure what purpose their release would serve other than a legal one and the consequence would be to imperil our troops, the only protectors of our foreign policy, when we most need them, and British troops who are trying to build security in Afghanistan. The mere description of these pictures is horrendous enough, take my word for it."

"Change - Yes We Can!"

When complying with the court order to release the photos, our "First Asian American" President claimed, "I want to emphasize that these photos that were requested in this case are not particularly sensational, especially when compared to the painful images that we  remember from Abu Ghraib."

He has since reneged and blocked the release of the photos, resulting in the ACLU charging that Obama "has essentially become complicit with the torture that was rampant during the Bush years by being complicit in its coverup." The Obama administration has also sought to protect intelligence officials involved in torture from prosecution at every turn. 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-pledges-to-protect-cia-torture-operatives-1670067.html