Reply #21: Pentagon reponse: Soldiers can't post pics on websites anymore.

[Eugene]

From today's Boston Globe...

Military tightens use of electronic media

Move follows alleged posting of gruesome photos from Iraq

By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff | September 29, 2005

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has tightened guidelines governing the use
of photography, e-mail, Web logs, and other electronic media by US
troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, amid allegations that some soldiers
snapped close-up photographs of corpses in Iraq and posted them on a
pornographic website.

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However, to avoid such violations in the future, commanders have
updated the rules for using the Internet and other communications
technologies such as digital cameras, which have captured the brutal
reality on the ground in Iraq like perhaps no previous conflict.

A bulletin issued yesterday to US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
outlined new "Internet security" guidelines. Among other things, the
one-page memo warned troops against posting "any photographs on any
websites."

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Full article: http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/09/29/military_tightens_use_of_electronic_media