"Here, take one of me with the corpse! It'll look great on my mantle!"Photos of two American soldiers posing with thumbs up near a body packed in ice at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were shown on ABC-TV.
The photos showed Army Sgt. Charles A. Graner Jr. and Spc. Sabrina Harman, both of whom have already been charged in the prisoner abuse scandal.
They also were shown Thursday on the Arabic TV station Al-Arabiya.
The detainee, whose badly bruised corpse was in a body bag packed with ice, died in the prison's showers while being interrogurated by the CIA or other civilian agents, ABC reported Wednesday. It said the Justice Department is investigating the death.
In an account published Monday, the Los Angeles Times reported that the victim had been brought to the prison with his head covered by an empty sandbag. It said he died in the midst of intensive questioning in the shower by military intelligence officials. After he collapsed, the interrogators removed the bag and then saw severe head wounds that had not been treated.
Calls by The Associated Press Thursday to Graner's lawyer, Guy Womack of Houston, and to Harman's attorney, Frank Spinner of Colorado Springs, Colo., were not immediately returned.
Womack told ABC News the photo of his client represented inappropriate "gallows humor."
I seriously want to know what possessed them to take these pictures. I mean seriously. There's dumb as in doing this shit in the first place, and then there's fucking dumb by taking the pictures to gloat over.
