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The US must release photographs showing abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, a federal judge has ruled in a long-running clash over letting the world see potentially disturbing images of how the military treated prisoners.US district judge Alvin Hellerstein’s ruling Friday gives the government, which has fought the case for over a decade, two months to decide whether to appeal before the photos could be released. The American Civil Liberties Union has been seeking to make them public in the name of holding government accountable.The Defense Department is studying the ruling and will make any further responses in court, spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Myles Caggins III said. ACLU representatives didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Friday night.The ACLU has said the pictures “are manifestly important to an ongoing national debate about governmental accountability for the abuse of prisoners”.The fight over the photographs reaches back to the early years of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it invokes the images of abuse at the Abu Ghraib
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