[NittanyLion]

Who ever took the pictures and distributed them, had an agenda, the pictures were taken to do harm, and just the fact that some of them were staged, should lead any rational person to be skeptical of why these pictures were taken, and the motives of who took them

So in your view, the disgusting nature of the pictures is not cause for revulsion, but rather to question the pics themselves?

Strange logic.

[Miss Marple]

Apparently you do not understanad what MJY1288 is saying.

The photos are disgusting and are rightly being condemnmed. But it is also appropriate to look at WHY the pictures were taken.

They were not taken to document abuses. They are obviously posed.

They seem to me not to be "trophy pictures," as the people in the photos are mugging for the camera in humorous poses rather than trying to look heroic.

I would be interested in knowing who instigated these pictures, and for what purpose. This does not negate the obvious criminality of the pictures, but rather seeks to know if there is something going on in addition to what is obvious in the photos.