Iraq War: Pentagon Unhappy with US Soldiers' Own Website of Photos called UNDER MARS.
Pentagon is investigating a website set up by US soldiers in Iraq. The website consists of a gallery of photos taken by soldiers in Iraq and posted onto the website.
This site contains an archive of photos taken by soldiers serving in active duty. This site aims only to visually document their experiences and is not a political site. The name "Under Mars" is an homage both to Mars, the Roman God of War, and to the otherworldly nature of the experience. If you'd like to add your photos to this archive, just email them to undermars@gmail.com along with any note you'd like included with them. Please only send photos that you took, or you know you have the permission of the photographer to send. Credit and thanks for this site goes exclusively to the men and women who created the photos which are contained inside.
The website is called UNDER MARS. Click at this link to view the website .
The website ( http://www.undermars.com/index.html ) has been set up for almost a year now.
On its homepage it says:
Read here article by Mark Dunn "Anger over Iraqi war dead on Internet " in the Herald Sun
27th January 2005
THE US Defence Department has been asked to investigate a website being used by American soldiers to post grisly pictures of Iraqi war dead.
The site, which has been operating for more than a year, describes itself as "an online archive of soldiers' photos".
Dozens of pictures of decapitated and limbless bodies are featured on the site with tasteless captions, purportedly sent in by soldiers.
Captions include "plastic surgery needed", "road kill" and "I said dead".
US President George Bush in 2003 demanded the Iraqi military not release photographs of US war prisoners for publication and the Pentagon has banned publication of pictures of coffins containing US war dead being transported back to America.
"It is no less cruel and sickening than web postings by terrorist groups of decapitated bodies of kidnapped victims."
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