Fishy.
I noted that the liberal media are basically jumping on the Iraqi Prisoner flap harder than a pack of wild dogs on a scrap of meat.
And then there's this: (Via BT, via Blair)
Fallujah native Abdul-Qader Abdul-Rahman al-Ani, his left elbow wrapped in bandages, his right forearm bound in a cast, recounted how he was beaten by soldiers who picked him up last month. The soldiers tied him and two others arrested with him to a tree and sodomized them one after the other, he told journalists.
"I ask President Bush," he said. "Does he agree with this?"
As Ani, 47, repeated his story, he was interrupted by Jabber al-Okaili, a member of one of the human rights groups that organized the gathering. "He's lying," al-Okaili shouted. "He's a liar!"
Al-Ani was rushed to an office, where al-Okaili and others unwound the bandage on his left arm and found the elbow unscarred and healthy. They cut off half of the cast on his forearm, even as al-Ani insisted, "By God, it's true, everything I say is true."
U.K. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said there are signs that photographs the Daily Mirror published purporting to show British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners may be fake.
"There are strong indications that the vehicle in which the photographs were taken was not in Iraq during the relevant period,'' Hoon told members of Parliament in London. The photos showed troops urinating on an Iraqi in the back of a truck.
There is something highly orchestrated about the images. I have a feeling that some players in the system pulled together a plan to position soldiers in ways that would make for the most shocking pictures and then made sure that there were plenty of pictures taken.
From the few snippets I have gathered from the media firestorm (i.e. One of the photographers by name of Sivits says that he was instructed to take the pictures) I am fairly convinced that there was a player behind the scenes who pulled the stunt together in order to create a political problem for Prez. Bush.