article_snippet: U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein's ruling on 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.
article_snippet: The Defense Department is studying the ruling and will make any further responses in court, spokesman Lt. Col. Myles Caggins III said.
article_snippet: It's unclear how many more photographs may exist.
article_snippet: government has said government has 29 relevant pictures from at least seven different sites in Afghanistan and Iraq, and government's believed to have perhaps hundreds or thousands more, Hellerstein said in a ruling in August.
article_snippet: Defense secretaries have since done so, but Hellerstein said The government hasn't been specific enough.
highlights_snippet: Images from Abu Grhaib prison in Baghdad now have two months to decide whether to appeal the ruling .