Reply #8: Army won't pursue charges over photos (traded for porn) showing war dead

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05272/579659.stm

Army won't pursue charges over photos showing war dead
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Thursday, September 29, 2005
By Josh White, The Washington Post
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Army officials are looking into allegations that soldiers have been trading gruesome digital pictures of war victims in Iraq and Afghanistan for access to an amateur pornography Web site, but officials said yesterday that there is insufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges.

The allegations surfaced last week, when the East Bay Express, a weekly newspaper in the San Francisco 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.

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The Web site's creator, Chris Wilson, said yesterday that about 30,000 members of the military are registered on his site, several thousand of whom have sent him photographs or comments from their official military Web addresses. Many photographs depict life in Iraq, while only a few are extremely graphic, he said.

"It's an uncensored view of the war, from their perspective," said Wilson, 27, of Florida, who began accepting the photos from soldiers as payment for access to porn on his site. "It's a place where the soldiers can express themselves without being filtered by the Bush administration."

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