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06/05/2004
Bush Administration apologises for prisoner abuses
The White House has said that President Bush is "deeply sorry" for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US personnel assigned to guard detainees.
Mr Bush went on Arabic Television channels to publicly deplore the "abhorrent" treatment of prisoners and has said that those troops responsible would be punished. However, his statement has been widely criticised in Arab circles for falling short of a personal apology.
The initial group of pictures showing degrading pictures of prisoners, which originally appeared on a US TV channel, have provoked outrage.
But the Washington Post has obtained further pictures, one showing a prisoner lying on the ground being led by a guard holding what appears to be a dog leash; other pictures show a pile of naked prisoners with bags tied over their heads; while another shows prisoners standing naked while a guard points at their genitals.
The Washington Post claims that, while it is possible that the latest pictures were staged, it believes the photographs to be genuine.
Appearing on Arabic TV channels yesterday, President Bush condemned any such abuse as "abhorrent" and told viewers it was not the America that he knew.
After the interviews on two Arabic TV channels, neither of which probed Mr Bush unduely, a spokesperson for Mr Bush, Scott McClellan, was asked why Mr Bush had not apologised. He said that he was "saying it for him now".
On Friday, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has been summoned to appear before the US Senate, will answer questions on the abuse of Iraqi detainees.
Mr Rumsfeld will appear before the Senate's Armed Services Committee in an open session and then later before the full Senate in a closed session.
Meanwhile in a apparent climb down, the US President has had to ask Congress for a further $25 billion to fund ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Bush administration had previously declared it was not seeking any further funding.
(SP)
Mr Bush went on Arabic Television channels to publicly deplore the "abhorrent" treatment of prisoners and has said that those troops responsible would be punished. However, his statement has been widely criticised in Arab circles for falling short of a personal apology.
The initial group of pictures showing degrading pictures of prisoners, which originally appeared on a US TV channel, have provoked outrage.
But the Washington Post has obtained further pictures, one showing a prisoner lying on the ground being led by a guard holding what appears to be a dog leash; other pictures show a pile of naked prisoners with bags tied over their heads; while another shows prisoners standing naked while a guard points at their genitals.
The Washington Post claims that, while it is possible that the latest pictures were staged, it believes the photographs to be genuine.
Appearing on Arabic TV channels yesterday, President Bush condemned any such abuse as "abhorrent" and told viewers it was not the America that he knew.
After the interviews on two Arabic TV channels, neither of which probed Mr Bush unduely, a spokesperson for Mr Bush, Scott McClellan, was asked why Mr Bush had not apologised. He said that he was "saying it for him now".
On Friday, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has been summoned to appear before the US Senate, will answer questions on the abuse of Iraqi detainees.
Mr Rumsfeld will appear before the Senate's Armed Services Committee in an open session and then later before the full Senate in a closed session.
Meanwhile in a apparent climb down, the US President has had to ask Congress for a further $25 billion to fund ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Bush administration had previously declared it was not seeking any further funding.
(SP)
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