Anger over Iraqi war dead on Internet

[lovuian]

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Anger over Iraqi war dead on Internet
By Mark Dunn
January 27, 2005
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".
more...

I guess cameras are still in use!!!

[mike_c]

1. yet another violation of the Geneva Conventions by our crusaders....

eom

[SodoffBush]

10. "Holy Warriors" is what they call themselves

I agree. That's what they are.

[leftchick]

2. I am amazed this has not popped up here at DU.

These soldiers are war criminals plain and simple! :grr:

[codswallop]

3. Somebody better put a stake in the heart of compassionate conservatism...

before it does us all in.

[egoprofit]

4. hide the evidence!! death isn't pretty, is it chimpie??!!

send the pics to bush.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. I guess I have the "freedom" in this country to call these bastards

what I think they are. I think they are no better than the SS was in Poland. By now they have got to know that the Iraqi people were guilty of nothing except living in an oil rich country that cheney wanted to conquer.

[Solly Mack]

6. The pictures alone make them war criminals

in addition to any other criminal acts they may have committed

[Demit]

7. Soldiers once again inspired by our leadership--when they plastered

pictures of Saddam's dead sons all over our television sets. We are indeed a charming people--we and our "western values".

[liberal43110]

8. Website

Have you seen thenausea.com ? It is a non-political site dedicated to portraying the human side of violence, torture, and war from around the world. It is more than many people can tolerate, I imagine. I heard about it last night and spent far too much time horrifying myself. I could't sleep and had dreams about war.

If you think you want to see what war looks like--including the current atrocity in Iraq--then visit.

Nancy

[jhain]

9. and the first hit I get on google?

of course.



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1302279/posts

[Mistress Quickly]

13. eh

they weren't talking about the ones talked about here, they were just posting the glorious patriotic pro-military ones, and warned others about the gruesome ones.

But thanks for making me look, lol. I was expecting some heavy anti-brownman stuff. That's a tame thread for them.



:puke:

[central scrutinizer]

11. is it this one?

http://www.undermars.com/

[egoprofit]

12. this is the site!!!! i found the pic listed in the article....

http://www.undermars.com/gallery55.html

"I said Play Dead" on the bottom... sad stuff.

http://www.undermars.com/gallery53.html

"Plastic Surgery Needed"

[Mari333]

14. and these...

http://www.undermars.com/gallery52.html

this is supposed to be funny?
god help us.

[egoprofit]

15. no but these are the people trying to kill our troops...

so i'm sure they don't have a lick of respect for dead iraqis.

[Mari333]

16. troops that shouldnt be there in the first place

a war that shouldnt exist. There is NO honour in posting pictures of dead Iraqis, be they civilian casualties (which they may very well be), or "insurgents."
especially with stupid gung ho testosterone laden adolescent remarks such as the ones found on this site.
Shame on the people who posted these flippant childish stupid remarks under these pictures.

[egoprofit]

18. i agree. shut that site down!!!!!!!!

[NeoConsSuck]

19. Here ya go..

Registrant:
Shannon Larratt
35 High Park Ave. #2701
Toronto, ON M6P2R6
CA

Domain name: UNDERMARS.COM

Administrative Contact:
Larratt, Shannon ******@bmezine.com
35 High Park Ave. #2701
Toronto, ON M6P2R6
CA
+1.4167676669
Technical Contact:
Larratt, Shannon ******@bmezine.com
35 High Park Ave. #2701
Toronto, ON M6P2R6
CA
+1.4167676669


Registrar of Record: easyDNS Technologies, Inc.
Record last updated on 28-Nov-2004.
Record expires on 28-Nov-2005.
Record created on 28-Nov-2004.

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.EASYDNS.COM 216.220.40.243
NS2.EASYDNS.COM 205.210.42.20
REMOTE1.EASYDNS.COM 64.39.29.212
REMOTE2.EASYDNS.COM 212.100.224.80
REMOTE3.EASYDNS.COM 64.39.29.216

[Damien]

24. freedom of speech

in fact, if more people saw it maybe we wouldn't keep doing this.

[cdb]

20. We

should be proud of the fine work we are doing in Iraq...but I noticed no pics of soldiers doing anything resembling humanitarian work... I am sure some page in those galleries there MUST be a shot of a soldier helping a family, a child... anything that would make me feel good about our "mission" there...

[TahitiNut]

22. Yep. Here's an "interesting" off-duty photo. (Where's Lynndie?)

[TahitiNut]

23. Shades of Vietnam! (Some things haven't changed.)

[TahitiNut]

25. These pages have photos of dead bodies and body parts.

When I was in Vietnam, we called this "contraband." (No, I'm not embedding the images in this post.)

http://www.undermars.com/gallery52.html
http://www.undermars.com/gallery53.html
http://www.undermars.com/gallery54.html
http://www.undermars.com/gallery55.html
http://www.undermars.com/gallery56.html

[dbt]

17. Will someone please do screen captures!

This stuff needs to be preserved before it gets disappeared.

:wow:
dbt

[Redstone]

21. It's a freeper site

Anyone surprised?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1302279/replies?c=2

Title: Under Mars - An Online Archive of Soldiers' Photos

Redstone

On edit: Oops. I see I got the wrong one. See the prior message for the right address.