Photos of Saddam in underwear "break Geneva Convention.

The US, the country that said it doesn't care about the Geneva Convention and therefore often ignores it, is now angry that the British newspaper, The Sun, has printed a photo of Saddam in his underwear on its front cover. The United States says that the photo is against the Geneva Convention. How hypocritical!

From AOL News -

Tabloid Defiant Over Saddam Snaps

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein following his capture in Tikrit in December 2003

The Sun newspaper is defending its decision to print pictures of Saddam Hussein standing half-naked in his prison cell.

The US military has launched an "aggressive" investigation into how the photographs were obtained, and condemned their publication in The Sun.

They include a front-page image of the toppled Iraqi dictator in his underpants and another showing him hand-washing his dirty clothes.

The newspaper said it obtained the pictures from a US military source who hoped it would deal a blow to the resistance in Iraq.

The Sun's managing editor Graham Dudman said: "They are a fantastic, iconic set of news pictures that I defy any newspaper, magazine or television station who were presented with them not to have published.''

Asked how he responded to the criticism about their publication, he said: "This is a man who has murdered a minimum of 300,000 people and we're supposed to feel sorry for him because someone's taken his picture?

"He's not been mistreated. He's washing his trousers. This is the modern-day Adolf Hitler. Please don't ask us to feel sorry for him.''

The US military in Baghdad said the photos violated military and possibly Geneva Convention guidelines "for the humane treatment of detained individuals''.

A spokesman said an investigation was launched as soon as the military discovered the existence and use of the photographs. The source of the photos was not immediately known, but they are believed to have been taken more than a year ago.

Khalil al-Duleimi, Saddam's defence lawyer in Iraq, was critical of the American handling of Saddam, but said he would not comment about the photographs until he learned whether they were genuine.

"I don't doubt such behaviour from the American forces because they don't respect the law. They impose the law of force and the law of the jungle,'' he said.

"They don't respect human rights and I expect them to do anything.''

If the photographs were genuine, they represented a "clear and blatant violation of all moral and human rights principles'', he added.

"They are a flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions concerning prisoners of war and my client is a war prisoner.''

ICRC Middle East spokeswoman Dorothea Krimitsas said use of such photos was illegal and US forces were obliged to "preserve the privacy of the detainee''.

"Taking and using photographs of him is clearly forbidden,'' Ms Krimitsas said.

UK-based legal adviser Giovanni di Stefano, who says he represents the deposed tyrant, criticised the publication of the pictures.

"It can't be right, can it, that you put a man in his underpants in the paper,'' he said.

The pictures show 68-year-old Saddam washing his dirty socks. The man who ruled Iraq with an iron fist for 24 years, and who was once accustomed to gold taps and toilet seats, now spends most of his time in a single 12ft by 9ft cell, the newspaper reveals.

It reports that the sparsely furnished room contains a small desk to write on and a pink plastic chair which he uses as a bedside table. He is said to be watched round the clock via three CCTV cameras and even monitored when he uses the toilet.

Shoot him, take a pic, then get the ones of his sons and print that.

It's just another opportunity for people to smear the U.S. Good for them...they can't have it both ways- either Saddam's a mass murderer or they have to protect his dignity. Which one is it? To hell with Saddam. If the Sun wants to print it, good for them. People that already hate us are the ones who are complaining- and good for them! They must like defending some psychoass mass murderer.

And nice big :roll:

to the both of you.

Man, those are the biggest Tighty Whiteys i've ever seen!

I see London, I see France... [but]

Nice Man Boobies Sadam, he looks a bit like Chopper after a big bender

Just when I think that the iraqis were starving, and now just take a look at his fat ...
Great pic by the way.

:evil:

Since when does the US care about the Geneva Conventions? Oh, yea, when Iraqi insurgency is likely to escalate . . .

Does any one really give damn about this creeps rights being violated? Not me. He should be thankful they only got a picture of him in his undies. It could have been worse, like he coulda been photo'd in WOMENS underwear like the other dudes at Abu Ghraib. Or maybe forced into a Naked Iraqi Pyramid.