Smeulers, Alette; van Niekirk, Sander (2009). «Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror - A case against Donald Rumsfeld?». Crime, Law and Social Change51 (3–4): 327–349. doi:10.1007/s10611-008-9160-2. https://research.vu.nl/ws/files/2403096/215948.pdf. «After the pictures were published the Bush administration was quick to condemn the abuse and accuse the low ranking soldiers who featured in the pictures. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld described the abuse at Abu Ghraib as an isolated case and President Bush talked about: 'disgraceful conduct by a few American troops who dishonoured our country and disregarded our values.' The abuse however did not constitute isolated cases but represented further proof of a widespread pattern.».
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Hersh, Seymour M. (May 17, 2004). «Chain of Command». The New Yorker. Αρχειοθετήθηκε από το πρωτότυπο στις January 1, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120101055751/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/05/17/040517fa_fact2?currentPage=all. Ανακτήθηκε στις September 13, 2011. «NBC News later quoted U.S. military officials as saying that the unreleased photographs showed American soldiers 'severely beating an Iraqi prisoner nearly to death, having sex with a female Iraqi prisoner, and "acting inappropriately with a dead body." The officials said there also was a videotape, apparently shot by U.S. personnel, showing Iraqi guards raping young boys.'»
Smeulers, Alette; van Niekirk, Sander (2009). «Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror - A case against Donald Rumsfeld?». Crime, Law and Social Change51 (3–4): 327–349. doi:10.1007/s10611-008-9160-2. https://research.vu.nl/ws/files/2403096/215948.pdf. «After the pictures were published the Bush administration was quick to condemn the abuse and accuse the low ranking soldiers who featured in the pictures. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld described the abuse at Abu Ghraib as an isolated case and President Bush talked about: 'disgraceful conduct by a few American troops who dishonoured our country and disregarded our values.' The abuse however did not constitute isolated cases but represented further proof of a widespread pattern.».
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Hersh, Seymour M. (May 17, 2004). «Chain of Command». The New Yorker. Αρχειοθετήθηκε από το πρωτότυπο στις January 1, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120101055751/http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/05/17/040517fa_fact2?currentPage=all. Ανακτήθηκε στις September 13, 2011. «NBC News later quoted U.S. military officials as saying that the unreleased photographs showed American soldiers 'severely beating an Iraqi prisoner nearly to death, having sex with a female Iraqi prisoner, and "acting inappropriately with a dead body." The officials said there also was a videotape, apparently shot by U.S. personnel, showing Iraqi guards raping young boys.'»