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The latest pictures show detainees being threatened with dogs (AP Photo/Courtesy of The New Yorker)
注：画像は記事ソースもとのBBCのものではなく、阿修羅内保存の画像を引用。
ブッシュはラムズフェルドを護るために戦う。
ラムズフェルドに対する「辞任」の圧力が高まる中、ブッシュがペンタゴン入り。
大統領はあくまでラムジーを守り抜く意思を表明するらしい。
一方で、アーミー・タイムズ紙は「辞任すべきだろう」との論調を出している。
またウェズリー・クラークは、今回の事態は国防長官だけでは済まず、責任はさらに上って
ブッシュ大統領自身が負うべきだと、NBCテレビのインタビューに答えている。
また今回の「犬をけしかける写真」より、さらに衝撃的な写真が、これから公開される可能性が強い。
BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3699453.stm
Last Updated: Monday, 10 May, 2004, 14:35 GMT 15:35 UK
Bush battles to defend Rumsfeld
President George W Bush is to visit the Pentagon for a briefing on Monday, amid continued pressure on his Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The president is scheduled to make some public remarks after the briefing, which is expected to focus on the prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.
Mr Bush has backed Mr Rumsfeld despite mounting calls for his resignation.
Military newspaper the Army Times has joined in with an editorial in effect calling on Mr Rumsfeld to be sacked.
The private newspaper, widely circulated at military bases, said Mr Rumsfeld and the US' top general, Richard Myers, should be held accountable for their failures, US media report.
But earlier, Vice-President Dick Cheney described Mr Rumsfeld as the best defence secretary the US has ever had.
'Damaging criticism'
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the meeting at the Pentagon had been scheduled well before the prisoner scandal erupted.
Mr Bush is reported to have demanded he be shown all the video material and still photographs showing mistreatment held by the Pentagon.
With new pictures surfacing almost every day - the latest showing soldiers with dogs surrounding a naked prisoner - efforts to draw a line under the scandal appear to have failed.
A confidential report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in US custody is not limited to isolated cases, but forms part of a systematic pattern.
A spokesman said the ICRC had been warning the US about such cases for more than a year.
But the organisation's strict policy of confidentiality meant it could not go into details publicly about the warnings.
Friday's Wall Street Journal newspaper quoted parts of the ICRC's 24-page report that alleges, among other things, that prisoners were kept naked in cells, in darkness and without facilities.
Meanwhile, top Democrats have pinned the blame for much of the scandal on President Bush.
"There's more than a systemic failure - there's a failure of leadership that goes right to the top," former Nato commander Wesley Clark told NBC television.
Troops blamed
Mr Rumsfeld told Congress on Friday that more "sadistic" photos and video images showing US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners were yet to be seen by the public.
The New York Times reports that there is resistance within the Pentagon to releasing more images.
Officials are warning that such a move could jeopardise criminal inquiries. Seven soldiers are facing charges over alleged abuses.
The BBC's Justin Webb, in Washington, says the vice-president has told people to stop haranguing Mr Rumsfeld, but it is clear that the Pentagon chief faces a new and damaging set of criticisms from army families, who think junior troops are being left to carry all the blame.
UK minister pressured
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologised for any cases of mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by British soldiers.
But on Monday he told reporters that it was only in the last few days that his government had been made aware of specific allegations of abuse - and that was when pictures of alleged abuse appeared in the press.
He said he and other ministers had not been shown the ICRC report which was submitted to the government in February.
Mr Blair said that any specific allegations ever made in about British troops "were immediately investigated and dealt with".
The British defence secretary is due to field questions about the alleged abuses in the House of Commons.
Geoff Hoon faces pressure to reveal when the claims first surfaced after Downing Street confirmed it had a Red Cross report in February raising concerns.
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