![]() ![]() Footnote 5 Yet, as often happens when multiple images represent the same event, some quickly gained a heightened circulation: the female guard Lynndie England with a collapsed prisoner on a leash, pyramids of naked prisoners with smiling guards posing behind them, prisoners facing barking dogs, and scenes of forced masturbation. Footnote 4 Chock and outrage was generated by the brutality of the abuse, the vast number of photos, and the multiple forms of violence depicted. ![]() Footnote 3 As one military official put it, this was a ‘moral Chernobyl’. Bush's attempt to explain that ‘This is not America’, Footnote 2 the photos ‘have become symbols in the Arab world of American imperialism’. Footnote 1 The sense of horror and disbelief within America was immediate and widespread and in spite of President George W. ![]() The photographs documented abuse that the US media had already been informed was under investigation, but which in the absence of images had generated little coverage. It is now a decade since the photos from the prison in Abu Ghraib were shown, first to an American audience watching Sixty Minutes II on 28 April 2004, then almost instantaneously reaching anyone with a television or internet connection. ![]()
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