US: Saddam pics inappropriate
2005-05-29 19:08
Washington - General Richard Myers, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, said on Sunday that the recent publication of pictures of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in his underwear was inappropriate and that an investigation was continuing.
"I have not seen what we found out yet," Myers said in an interview with Fox News Sunday. "I think we're still in the middle of that investigation.
"We need to find out because it is not appropriate to take pictures like that."
Asked whether the United States knew who took the pictures of Saddam, first published in the British tabloid The Sun, Myers said: "No, we do not."
The pictures, which also ran in the New York Post, another tabloid owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, drew protests from human rights and Muslim groups, who complained they violated the Geneva Conventions over the treatment of prisoners.