US troops swap war pix for porn
p2p news / p2pnet:- Demands that the US Army investigates charges that its soldiers have been trading gory pix of Iraq and Afghanistan war victims for access to an amateur porn site can`t be met, says the Pentagon.
There`s insufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges, according to the Army, says the Washington Post, going on:
The allegations surfaced last week, when the East Bay Express, a weekly newspaper in the San Francisco Bay area, published a story about graphic photographs that appeared on one section of the Web site. The photographs, which show the bodies of several people killed in shootings, explosions, or fires, include crude captions, some of which mock the dead.
Strong statements condemning the taking and posting of such photographs came from Pentagon and Army officials, but they said there`s little evidence to authenticate them and few ways to pursue a criminal investigation, says the story.
While some of the photos appear to show U.S. soldiers in uniform near mutilated bodies, it is unclear where or when the pictures were taken.
The site’s creator said about 30,000 members of the military were registered, several thousand of whom had sent him photographs or comments from their official military web addresses, adds the Washington Post.
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Washington Post – Army Investigating Web Postings of Grisly War Photos, September 29, 2005
September 30th, 2005 at 9:40 pm
There’s actually several websites around where you can view the pictures of:
1) mutilated bodies
2) charred and burned bodies
3) US & British soldiers RAPING young iraqi girls (early teens)
4) Soldiers doing the “wild thing” with their wives
5) heads, limbs, beheadings, executions and other IRAQI victims (aka “liberated Iraqis”)
6) destroyed buildings, cars, roads, bridges, hospitals, just mayhem…
September 30th, 2005 at 11:48 pm
Where can I find #3?
October 1st, 2005 at 12:54 am
Perhaps one of the darker uses of P2P – assembling all that violence and gore in an easily searchable index.
October 1st, 2005 at 1:50 am
“little evidence to authenticate them”
sure, right!
Are they so blind that they don’t even notice that many of these ‘trophy’ pics have US soldiers gleefully posing next to the victims they just killed, and often abusing the corpses?
http://img311.imageshack.us/img311/4330/6thmarines1122dj.jpg
(BTW – the website mentioned in the above article is http://www.nowthatsfuckedup.com )
When the Iraqi or Afghan Resistance engages in that kind of behavior, such as the infamous incident involving US mercenaries being killed, roasted, dragged through the streets, and finally hung from the Falluja bridge, the United States considered it such an abominable act, that it justified the destruction of the city of Falluja at the hands of US forces.
When the shoe is on the other foot, and proof comes to light that US forces are just as guilty, if not more so, the outrage quickly gets replaced by lame excuses. According to this logic, the occupied people must be held to a much higher standard of behavior than the invader should be – at least when the invader is the United States.
Abu Ghraib demonstrated that the only time there is ever any disciplinary action of any kind against US military war criminals is when photographic evidence gets beamed around the world – the pics showing the worst (and still scott-free) offenders are still classified, as the US military argues that the world must never know what they really do to Iraqi prisoners behind closed doors, lest there be widespread uprising against US rule.
Hypocrites.
October 1st, 2005 at 1:53 am
“little evidence to authenticate them”
sure, right!
Are they so blind that they don’t even notice that many of these ‘trophy’ pics have US soldiers gleefully posing next to the victims they just killed, and often abusing the corpses?
http://img311.imageshack.us/img311/4330/6thmarines1122dj.jpg
(BTW – the website mentioned in the above article is http://www.nowthatsfuckedup.com )
When the Iraqi or Afghan Resistance engages in that kind of behavior, such as the infamous incident involving US mercenaries being killed, roasted, dragged through the streets, and finally hung from the Falluja bridge, the United States considered it such an abominable act, that it justified the destruction of the city of Falluja at the hands of US forces.
When the shoe is on the other foot, and proof comes to light that US forces are just as guilty, if not more so, the outrage quickly gets replaced by lame excuses. According to this logic, the occupied people must be held to a much higher standard of behavior than the invader should be – at least when the invader is the United States.
Abu Ghraib demonstrated that the only time there is ever any disciplinary action of any kind against US military war criminals is when photographic evidence gets beamed around the world – the pics showing the worst (and still scott-free) offenders are still classified, as the US military argues that the world must never know what they really do to Iraqi prisoners behind closed doors, lest there be widespread uprising against US rule.
Hypocrites.
October 1st, 2005 at 5:40 am
The thing is that if the shots were taken by reporters then it would be considered as news. And they posting them to a forum that you have to pay to gain access to the pics. Id rather see these pics in a blog then in a forum to trade for porn pics. Im sure the soldiers know how to get porn pics and dont need to trade. I think its a sham that the media doesnt show things that may “upset” the american public. Heck you get better news sometimes from Aljeezera or the website that has all the bomber videos and beheadings. (but i cant understand the page and google wont translate it) True it can be biased. With all the torrent sites getting shut down why cant they shut down the terrorist own site or at least hack it and find out who is uploading the pics and videos to them.
October 1st, 2005 at 8:10 am
How True!!!
October 1st, 2005 at 12:58 pm
try ogrish.com
October 1st, 2005 at 1:23 pm
“Nowthatsfuckedup.com is the most horror-filled website I have ever seen; and if you are reading this at breakfast, or anywhere near a child, you should stop right now. It is a site for trophy pictures, originally a place where men could trade pornographic pictures of women they knew. But in wartime the definition of trophy changes, so when you look at the forum now you are likely to see something such as this:
A burnt and crumpled Arab face rests in a blue kitchen bowl. It doesn’t look as if the back of the head is there, but it’s impossible to be sure because everything behind the eyes is hidden in a pool of blood and everything below the jaw is missing.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1579864,00.html
October 1st, 2005 at 3:58 pm
Oh yes, those other fellows are sweet and lovable.
March 28th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
good ….i know somone smart enough to hack anything…I just want to know who is hosting the beheadings?