Saddam, US Government and The Sun

The US military has condemned the Sun for publishing photographs of a captive Saddam Hussein and said it was "aggressively" investigating who took them. Today's paper carries a series of photographs showing the former Iraqi dictator in his cell, including one on the front page showing him in his underwear. Another shows him washing clothes under the headline "Tyrant? He's washed up". The Sun says it obtained the photos from "US military sources" who handed them over "in the hope of dealing a body blow to the resistance in Iraq". "Saddam is not superman or God, he is now just an ageing and humble old man," the paper quotes its source as saying. "It's important that the people of Iraq see him like that to destroy the myth." But in a statement issued today, the American military in Baghdad said the photos violated military guidelines "and possibly Geneva convention guidelines for the humane treatment of detained individuals".

Sun under fire over Saddam pics
Claire Cozens and agencies
The Guardian

Among friends! Saddam Hussein, US Government and The Sun
What's interesting here is that "the American military in Baghdad said the photos violated military guidelines 'and possibly Geneva convention guidelines for the humane treatment of detained individuals' ".

So, after the first Gulf war and its violations of the Geneva conventions, after the genocidal US led UN sanctions against the Iraqi people, after the ‘supreme international crime’ of invasions and occupations of sovereign countries by the most powerful death machine in history, after Afghanistan and Guantanamo, after Iraq and Abu Ghraib, now someone in the US military remembers the Geneva conventions…

The fascist, coarse, classist, sexist and reactionary propaganda called ‘The Sun’ is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a megalomaniacal billionaire who returned his Australian passport so to be able to own more, pay less taxes and free his insatiable greed in the United States where he owns one of the most large media empire with names such as FOX and The New York Post. (Sorry for the use of bad words!) Mr Murdoch is believed to have had a big role in the elections of Ronald Reagan, Margareth Thacher (remember her? Yes, the very good friend of General Augusto Pinochet), Tony Blair, George W. Bush and he’s a good friend of Italy’s PM Silvio Berlusconi.