http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15742
As you can see, there was a question on that site about the source of their
pictures. Additionally, there's a British investigation to see if the pictures
are real or faked. In this day of high powered digital photography, it is
getting easier and easier to create pictures that are almost impossible to
verify.
I'm not saying that these things didn't happen, I'm saying to keep an open and
honest skepticism of the 'news'.
" but The Post could not eliminate the possibility that some of them were
staged. "
--
Michael Dinowitz
House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4908787/
>
> "The pictures obtained by The Post include shots of soldiers simulating
> sexually explicit acts with one another and shots of a cow being skinned
> and gutted and soldiers posing with its severed head. There are also
> dozens of pictures of a cat's severed head. Other photographs show
> wounded men and dead bodies. In one, a dead man is lying in the back of
> a truck, his shirt, face and left arm covered in blood. His right arm is
> missing. Another photograph shows a dead body, gray and decomposing. A
> young soldier is leaning over the corpse, smiling broadly and giving the
> "thumbs-up" sign. And in another picture a young woman lifts her shirt,
> exposing her breasts. She is wearing a white band with numbers on her
> wrist, but it is unclear whether she is a prisoner. "
> Oh my god..this is a HORROR STORY!
> What sort of sick f**s are these people??
>
> I'm fishing here. Someone help me out.
> Is this what happens when people go to war and have to move dead bodies,
> kill people etc. ?
> They lose their humanity?
> Is it inevitable that a soldier in war will be warped and bent so far
> out of shape that this sort of morbidity and sadism is to be expected?
>
> I'm having difficulty understanding why this happened.
>
> This is beyond just a few psychos at a prison. This seems to be a US
> Army issue, perhaps a deep US Army issue. Does this happen everywhere in
> the world, but because of the new prevalence of Digital cameras and the
> internet we're only just beginning to hear about it?
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if in response the army bans servicemen from
> carrying digital cameras and taking pictures. But that's
> ridiculous...isn't it?
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