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| Jihad Unspunâs Staff Carefully Studies Pornographic Photographs | ||
| 2004-05-04 | ||
| From Jihad Unspun In early September, 2003, JUS [Jihad Unspun] received from an anonymous source, a series of disturbing photographs of three US soldiers sexually violating what appears to be a young Iraqi girl. The photographs are not computer generated and at first pass appear to be authentic. The girl in the picture appears to be wearing authentic Shia dress, the surroundings are similar to that found in Iraq and the quality of the photos are poor suggesting that they were taken using amateur equipment and then faxed or scanned resulting in low resolution. [Later] we received yet another grouping of photographs, also from an anonymous source. The second set of photographs appeared to be the work of pornographers. The characters in the photographs are more âstagedâ and the âsoldiersâ appear with their faces blackened. As we endeavored to source out this second set, we discovered not one but several pornographic sites that boasted giving the âIraqi bitches what they deservedâ and these sites had similar âsoldiersâ in camouflage. We decided not to publish them at that time as we have not enough information to be able to legitimize the photographs. In January 2004, we received information that tipped us off to what was really going on. We were told by an anonymous source that the wifes, sisters and daughters of those arrested by US forces, British forces and the hired mercenaries that are so often overlooked were being used to âsoften upâ detainees in Iraq. Either the male relatives cooperated with interrogators they were threatened with their female family members ended up on porn sites. If the detainee was not forthcoming, this is what occurred and the photographs were presented to him. While we had a far amount of information we still could not place a time date or location on the photos and therefore we could not publish them. We did however submit them to the humanitarian organizations with no reply and made a further call on our site for information.
Here is what we do know: ⢠On June 9th, an the Iraqi newspaper As-Saah charged that 18 US soldiers raped two Iraqi girls aged 14 and 15, a claim of course denied by the US military. One of the girls was subsequently killed by her family for the shame that this act caused.
⢠There have been numerous underground news items and reports in the past months that make further allegations that US soldiers are not only raping the country but raping the Iraqi woman as well. None of these claims have been validated, until possibly now. .... If the photos can be validated, we will rigorously | ||
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |