CAIRO (AFP) - Arabs and Muslims are still reeling from the sexual -- and often pornographic -- nature of the abuses at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, commentators said.
In the conservative Middle East, where men dominate society and modesty is valued above almost all else, people were shocked by the images of US military prison guards forcing nude prisoners to lie on each other and simulate sex.
The pictures were often taken in front of smiling troops, including women. In one now notorious image, Private Lynndie England, a cigarette dangling from her lips, points to men's genitals.
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However, there is growing suspicion they may have acted at least with the acquiescence of superiors to "soften up" prisoners before questioning, knowing the shame of nudity and sex -- a pictures of those things -- would put huge psychological pressure on them.
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