These are many of the photos and video images that the federal government has kept under wraps -- despite court rulings in favor of the ACLU that they be released -- arguing that their publication could endanger the mission in Iraq. The U.S. military could have unveiled these terrible photographs at a time of its choosing; instead they're published on the heels of the cartoon riots, and the video of British soldiers making sport of beating Iraqi boys.

The images are bloodier and more sexually charged than the originals. (One shows a prisoner sprawled on the floor with his pants and underwear at his ankles and the words "5th Rapeist" misspelled on his right buttock.) And there's a terrible video of a prisoner in a "stress position" banging his head against a cell door.

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Watch a video montage here.