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U.S. soldiers put captions on gruesome photos of Iraqi dead
by Plutonium Page
Fri Jan 28th, 2005 at 12:22:52 PST
I read about this several days ago, but couldn't find much information on it until today.
Apparently, some U.S. soldiers have set up a website dedicated to their conquests in Iraq. They've posted a variety of photos, including ones of dead Iraqis, complete with captions.
I am going to give you two news articles that report this.
One is from The Australian. The other is from uruknet.info ("information from occupied iraq"), which links to Dahr Jamail's articles, among other things.
The uruknet.info article has the pictures the soldiers took. I won't post the pictures themselves because they are very graphic, and very disturbing.
Look below the fold.
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Here's an excerpt from (the very short) article from The Australian:
THE US Defence Department has been asked to investigate a website being used by American soldiers to post grisly pictures of Iraqi war dead.
The site, which has been operating for more than a year, describes itself as "an online archive of soldiers' photos".
Dozens of pictures of decapitated and limbless bodies are featured on the site with tasteless captions, purportedly sent in by soldiers.
Captions include "plastic surgery needed", "road kill" and "I said dead".
Australian expat Iraqis, most of whom supported the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, have been angered by the website and called on the US government to ensure it was taken down.
And here's the uruknet.info article. WARNING! GRAPHIC PHOTOS!
THE US Defence Department has been asked to investigate a website being used by American soldiers to post grisly pictures of Iraqi war dead.
The site (
http://www.undermars.com/ ), which has been operating for more than a year, describes itself as "an online archive of soldiers' photos".
Dozens of pictures of decapitated and limbless bodies are featured on the site with tasteless captions, purportedly sent in by soldiers.
Captions include "plastic surgery needed", "road kill" and "I said dead".
Obviously, it's the same text as the article from The Australian, but it includes the link to the soldiers' site.
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