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September 30, 2005
The Corpses-for-Porn Story Keeps Moving.
Read it.
Check out this piece from The Guardian too. An excerpt, describing one of the images submitted by what seems to be a U.S. soldier so that he could get 90 days of free amateur pornography:
"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."
Morley's piece adds this:
"There's some dispute about whether all of the pictures are real," Brown wrote [in The Guardian], "but it seems beyond doubt that most of the posters claiming to be soldiers actually are, not least because the American Army tries to stop its soldiers accessing the site and posting captions like "this is an Iraqi driver and passenger that tried to run a checkpoint during the first part of OIF [Operation Iraqi Freedom]. The bad thing about shooting them is that we have to clean it up. The car was shot at with 5.56mm and 7.62 mm rounds. The 7.62 did his head' - but the viewer must take on trust that the head existed."
Note Morley's conclusion: "At home and abroad, this story may be far from over."
Posted by Eric at September 30, 2005 8:20 AM
Comments
Way to steer the media! After your first post on this topic I tried getting the story placed on BoingBoing(.net), but to no avail. Suckers!
Posted by: Lance McCord at September 30, 2005 10:02 AM
I think "snuff-for-porn" encapsulates the scandal better, FWIW.
Posted by: Ugh at September 30, 2005 10:32 AM
"We can never again claim to be ignorant of what an American bomb, M-16 round, or improvised explosive device does to a human body."
Hold the phone - we had a pass on this stuff BEFORE we saw pictures? And to think I wasted that free time knowing full well what an American bomb, and m-16 round, or an improvised explosive device does to a human body from basic information from public school (biology, physics, history), observations of road kill, and common sense. Damn. The blissful ignorance that might have been mine in the halcyon days before these images - the first ever of dead burnt mangled bodies with veins in my teeth - were shoved in my face.
I'm glad Goya never had to see such horror - might have affected his delicate artistic sense.
Posted by: ynot81 at October 4, 2005 6:49 PM