By TRAVIS REED
Associated Press Writer
ORLANDO, Fla.
A man who runs a pornographic Web site that includes pictures of Iraqi war dead has been arrested on sexual obscenity charges.
Chris Wilson, a 27-year-old former policeman from Lakeland, was taken into custody Friday night on one felony and 300 misdemeanor indecency counts unrelated to the grisly pictures from Iraq. The charges come a week after his site made national news and launched a Pentagon investigation into how war zone photos of charred and dismembered bodies described as victims of U.S. attacks could have surfaced.
Polk County sheriff's officials said he was charged because the Web site also features sexually explicit pictures and videos that users send of women who are supposedly their wives and girlfriends - including those who appear to be active-duty soldiers.
Sheriff's officials insist the charges are unrelated to the Iraq pictures, but Wilson's lawyer, Lawrence Walters, disagreed.
"Of all the hundreds of thousands of webmasters in the country, and even in central Florida, why would Chris Wilson be arrested a week after he hits national spotlight news on the Iraqi war photos?" said Walters, a First Amendment specialist. "I think any reasonable person would be suspicious of that.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051008/APN/510080702(True posting these photos is a little bit sick and seeking them out wouldn't be my cup o' tea, but it is the truth of what the Bushies have caused over there. And with all the porn and even gory death sites out there, to single this guy's out does seem to tell me that truth is exactly what they are trying to hide.)
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