Corpse pics traded for porn

No punishment at all. My the question has to be asked what happens when the shoes are on the other feet, and it is a certainty they believe an eye for an eye God a can of worms has been opened up here for all the innocent soldiers over there, who have lived up to the Geneva Convention.

Washington - The United States army is investigating complaints that soldiers posted photographs of Iraqi corpses on an internet site in exchange for access to pornographic images on the site, said officials.

A Washington-based Islamic civil rights group said it wrote a letter to defence secretary Donald H Rumsfeld to object to the practice, which it said might violate international rules of war, and urged the defence department to put a stop to it.

In a letter to Rumsfeld, a legal director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Arsalan Iftikhar, wrote: "This disgusting trade in human misery is an insult to all those who have served in our nation's military."

Unacceptable practice

Rumsfeld spokesperson Bryan Whitman said on Tuesday that the Pentagon recently became aware of the practice and was looking into it.

Whitman said: "Obviously it is an unacceptable practice."

Colonel Joseph Curtin of the army said the Criminal Investigation Command recently begun investigating the matter on behalf of lieutenant general John Vines, commander of Multi-National Corps-Iraq.

Another army spokesperson, Paul Boyce, said the preliminary criminal inquiry determined, based on available evidence, that felony charges could not be pursued.

He said, but the matter, including the possibility of disciplinary action, was being handled in co-ordination with other military services.

Many of the photos depicted dismembered Iraqi corpses and body parts. Soldiers in Afghanistan also submitted some.

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