Pentagon Blocks Release of Abu Ghraib Images: Here’s Why

I suspect that the images would make it more difficult as to who the real terrorists are. I still predict that the images will slowly begin being leaked.

So what is shown on the 87 photographs and four videos from Abu Ghraib prison that the Pentagon, in an eleventh hour move, blocked from release this weekend? One clue: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress last year, after viewing a large cache of unreleased images: “I mean, I looked at them last night, and they’re hard to believe.” They show acts “that can only be described as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhumane,” he added.