January 27, 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 (
http://www.undermars.com/), which has been operating for more than a year, describes itself as “an online archive of soldiers’ photosâ€.
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 neededâ€, “road kill†and “I said deadâ€.