Losing hearts and minds, in style...
May. 6th, 2004 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrphSometimes news crosses the line into very bleak parody. This one's trawled from various US papers and WorldNetDaily...
As well as the now-infamous photos of Iraqi prisoners being abused by UK and USA troops, a few Arabic news sites - most notably Albasrah.net and a Tunisian pro-Saddam site - have been publishing pictures of Iraqi women being sexually assaulted by US troops.
As WorldNetDaily says:
Mystery now solved. They came from porn sites - specifically, they came from the American "Iraq Babes" and Hungarian "Sex in War" porn sites. The American one has now been closed down by its registrant, who seems shocked and surprised that the pictures have been used this way...
To quote from her statement to WND: "In light of the anti-American use that other websites have found for this content, we have decided to sever all business ties with this client and have removed their site from our server"
Reality check. So, until these pictures were picked up and used for "anti-American" purposees, she didn't have a problem with hosting a porn site based around images of men dressed as US soldiers 'raping' women dressed as Iraqi civilians?
It's not as if I'm expecting anything resembling ethics from a porn site host, you understand, but surely you only need two brain cells to see that this was an idea that was going to backfire really, really badly?
And let's think, just for a second, about how this is going to go down in the Arab media. "The pictures were fakes, and we can prove it" might be a good start.
But "They were just taken from a porn site set up so that people could get their kicks from paying to watch 'US soldiers' with 'Iraqi' women"... I can't see that aspect going down terribly well, can you?
...words fail me.
As well as the now-infamous photos of Iraqi prisoners being abused by UK and USA troops, a few Arabic news sites - most notably Albasrah.net and a Tunisian pro-Saddam site - have been publishing pictures of Iraqi women being sexually assaulted by US troops.
As WorldNetDaily says:
The Tunisian site described the photos as the "unedited" versions of actual events and Albasrah ran the photos under the heading "The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos," indicating they had received the photos via e-mail.They've been swiftly discredited as fakes, which is why they didn't get much mainstream news coverage, but initially nobody seemed to know where they'd come from.
Mystery now solved. They came from porn sites - specifically, they came from the American "Iraq Babes" and Hungarian "Sex in War" porn sites. The American one has now been closed down by its registrant, who seems shocked and surprised that the pictures have been used this way...
To quote from her statement to WND: "In light of the anti-American use that other websites have found for this content, we have decided to sever all business ties with this client and have removed their site from our server"
Reality check. So, until these pictures were picked up and used for "anti-American" purposees, she didn't have a problem with hosting a porn site based around images of men dressed as US soldiers 'raping' women dressed as Iraqi civilians?
It's not as if I'm expecting anything resembling ethics from a porn site host, you understand, but surely you only need two brain cells to see that this was an idea that was going to backfire really, really badly?
And let's think, just for a second, about how this is going to go down in the Arab media. "The pictures were fakes, and we can prove it" might be a good start.
But "They were just taken from a porn site set up so that people could get their kicks from paying to watch 'US soldiers' with 'Iraqi' women"... I can't see that aspect going down terribly well, can you?
...words fail me.
