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The Pentagon said this week that it would open an investigation into the leak of photographs of Saddam Hussein clad only in underpants. The British tabloid The Sun ran one of the photos on its front page with the headline “Tyrant’s in His Pants.” The newspaper, owned by Rupert Murdoch, said it got the photos from a U.S. official who intended for their publication to humiliate the Baathist insurgency in Iraq. “It is clear that the pictures were taken inside the prison, which means that American soldiers have leaked the pictures,” said Saddam’s lawyer, Ziad al-Khasawneh. The Pentagon said whoever released the photos violated U.S. policy and possibly the Geneva Conventions.
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