I cannot import photos from iPhone to iPhoto 11

I cannot import photos from iPhone to iPhoto 11, I have delete all the pictures I captute on the iPhone yet iPhoto show me 10 picture squares that are grayed out. I tried to import these and I'm shown a message that says undeadable files 10 : The following files could not be imported. the files are in an unrecognized format.
IMG_0192.JPG
IMG_0193.JPG
IMG_0194.JPG
IMG_0195.JPG
IMG_0196.JPG
IMG_0197.JPG
IMG_0198.JPG
IMG_0199.JPG
IMG_0200.JPG
IMG_0201.JPG
IMG_0202.JPG
IMG_0203.JPG
I have detele the iPhoto cache from user/library/caches/com.apple.iPhoto but it made no difference.
Any advice is welcome.

Yes, I did solved the problem. It was not with iPhoto but with the iTunes. Once I delete my phone profile all worked. I did not write the steps down but if you do it please post it here.
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