article_snippet: A federal judge has ordered the US military to release photographs of detainees being abused in Iraq and Afghanistan .
article_snippet: The fight over the photographs reaches back to the early years of the wars in Iraq and AfghanistanAfghanistan, and The fight over the photographs invokes the images of abuse at Abu Grhaib prison in Baghdad Iraq that sparked international outrage after they emerged in 2004 and 2006.
article_snippet: This image shows an unidentified detainee standing on a box with a bag on an unidentified detainee head and wires attached to an unidentified detainee at Abu Grhaib prison in Baghdad.
article_snippet: A federal judge has ordered that more pictures of inmate abuse must be shared by the US military . '
article_snippet: Early in the 2004 lawsuit, ACLU ACLU pointed to the Abu Ghraib photos as priority examples of records the organization was seeking on the treatment of detainees.
article_snippet: Some photographs, taken by service members in Iraq and Afghanistan, were part of criminal investigations of alleged abuse.
article_snippet: Some images show 'soldiers pointing pistols or rifles at the heads of hooded and handcuffed detainees,' then-Solicitor General — now Supreme Court Justice — Elena Kagan wrote in an appeal to the high court earlier in the case, which has taken a long road through the courts and Congress.
article_snippet: The fight over the photographs reaches back to the early years of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and The fight over the photographs invokes the images of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (inside pictured) that sparked international outrage after they emerged in 2004 and 2006 .
highlights_snippet: Follows a long-running clash concerning how prisoners were treated .
  
highlights_snippet: Images from Abu Grhaib prison in Baghdad sparked outrage in 2004 .
  