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From the Telegraph

On May 15, 2009, the title of the article read: New 'prisoner abuse' photographs emerge despite US bid to block publication

The title of the article has since been changed. Below is the sub-heading.

"Graphic photographs of alleged prisoner abuse, thought to be among up to 2,000 images Barack Obama is trying to prevent from being released, have been unearthed."

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From the Salon Abu Ghraib Files from 2006

"In 2006, Salon published the most extensive archive of photos and videos capturing detainee abuse at the U.S. Army's Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, some of it carried out by CIA agents. It's worth noting that when we did so, the Pentagon claimed we were damaging national security by publishing such inflammatory images -- the same argument former Bush administration officials are making about Obama's decision to release the memos this week. Shortly after we published "The Abu Ghraib Files," the Pentagon released much of the same material to the ACLU."

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Why is this important?

Because if people forget which pictures have been released then the old same pictures can continually be recycled as new and the actual, as of yet, unreleased photos can stay hidden away. It's not like the Bush hold-overs in the Pentagon wouldn't try to release the same pictures over and over again and call them new. That's why it is important to remember.

As anyone who has been following the Abu Ghraib release knows, not all of the pictures from Abu Ghraib have been released - but these aren't those photos.

They *might* be repeated in the larger set of photos, 2000 or so, that Obama said would be released in addition to the photos that were supposed to be released to the ACLU by May 28, 2009.

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