Photos are just the tip of the iceberg.

The New York Times > Washington > Photos of Dead May Indicate Graver Abuse: "Grisly photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison of two dead men may indicate that the violence at the prison went far beyond degrading treatment of detainees. The Bush administration has provided only limited information about one of the men; the other remains a mystery.


The photographs come from the same collection of pictures that show military guards humiliating other detainees. All of the photographs, including those of the dead men, were taken at Abu Ghraib, according to people who provided them to The New York Times.


One photograph shows the body of a man with a huge head wound. Next to him is a piece of paper with a detainee identification number: 153399.


Pentagon officials have not answered any questions about the identity of that prisoner or the circumstances of his death. However, an internal military report completed in March by Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba described the death of prisoner No. 153399 during a riot on Nov. 24, 2003. The Taguba report said that the guards were authorized to use deadly force, but it harshly criticized the handling of the incident.


Among the problems cited were overcrowding, lack of training for guards, poor communication between commanders and soldiers and 'the mix of less than lethal rounds with lethal rounds in weapons.'


The other unidentified photo shows the body of a man with facial wounds and a bandage under his swollen right eye. He is in an unzipped body bag covered with bags of ice. There is no other information."