27 September 2005

US soldiers trade grisly photos of dead and mutilated Iraqis for access to amateur porn

While the Bush adminstration begins its war on porn campaign, here is a truly revolting and lesser reported account of war pornography. Definitely not for the squeamish, as some of these photos are ghastly disgusting.
If you want to see the true face of war, go to the amateur porn Web site NowThatsF***edUp.com. For almost a year, American soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been taking photographs of dead bodies, many of them horribly mutilated or blown to pieces, and sending them to Web site administrator Chris Wilson. In return for letting him post these images, Wilson gives the soldiers free access to his site. American soldiers have been using the pictures of disfigured Iraqi corpses as currency to buy pornography.

At Wilson's Web site, you can see an Arab man's face sliced off and placed in a bowl filled with blood. Another man's head, his face crusted with dried blood and powder burns, lies on a bed of gravel. A man in a leather coat who apparently tried to run a military checkpoint lies slumped in the driver's seat of a car, his head obliterated by gunfire, the flaps of skin from his neck blooming open like rose petals. Six men in beige fatigues, identified as US Marines, laugh and smile for the camera while pointing at a burned, charcoal-black corpse lying at their feet.

The captions that accompany these images, which were apparently written by the soldiers who posted them, laugh and gloat over the bodies. The soldier who posted a picture of a corpse lying in a pool of his own brains and entrails wrote, "What every Iraqi should look like." The photograph of a corpse whose jaw has apparently rotted away, leaving a gaping set of upper teeth, bears the caption "bad day for this dude." One soldier posted three photographs of corpses lying in the street and titled his collection "DIE HAJI DIE." The soldiers take pride, even joy, in displaying the dead.

All the while a military judge bars the release of Abu Ghraib photos and the Bush administration has blocked photos of military coffins.

And guess who received pornography in exchange for their photos, and who received a court martial?.

Maybe it's just part of the grim meathook future, considering these folks are going to rejoin the U.S. civilian population. Or is it just the reality of the internet age, where events like these occurred in past days, but were just not exposed to the world beyond the immediate witnesses?

Definitely not the way to win the "hearts and minds" of Iraqis…

Comments

photos WERE here:
http://www.nowthatsfuckedup...

Looks like the photos and all the posts got erased.

I think on one level in human minds, sex and violence are interrelated.