[golas1964]

Okay, I haven't read all the other posts, so I apologize (seems like there's a lot of that going around these days) if I'm repeating someone else's thought. We're all asking ourselves, why would the soldiers in question be taking pictures/videos in the first place? You would take the photos if your intent was to distribute them on a gay porn website somewhere... Could this situation be a case of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' run amuck???

[Miss Marple]

It seems to me that there are some unanswered questions about these photos as well. Are some of these photos the types of things that circulate in certain unsavory sections of the gay community? Was someone taking pictures to sell them? Or, was there someone in MI who was encouraging this behavior for the purpose of having pictures leaked later?

The pictures are not those of someone who is trying to document abuses. They are posed.

I just have a LOT of questions and I don't think we yet know a tenth of the intrigue involved in this.

[longjack]

You would take the photos if your intent was to distribute them on a gay porn website somewhere...

Below is a link to a graphic photo that Germany's "Spiegel" ran a few days ago. The picture below is the ubiquitous Lynndie English photo, but the link on that picture will bring you to a photo essay that contains a very graphic picture of prisoners, which I haven't seen on FR yet.

... Iraqis were forced to perform sexual acts....

Click on the picture above. Graphic Content.

"Spiegel-Online".... Photo Essay from May 6, 2004. Picture 5.... Iraqis were forced to perform sexual acts....Click on the picture above..

.... Also: Here's a picture of Ivan Frederick that "Spiegel" ran.

"Spiegel-Online".... Ivan Frederick: Only a few weeks away from an Army pension.

longjack