Army Investigates Internet Postings
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WASHINGTON — The Army is investigating complaints that U.S. soldiers posted photographs of Iraqi corpses on an Internet site in exchange for access to pornographic images on the site, officials said Tuesday.
An Islamic civil rights group said it had written a letter of objection to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
“This disgusting trade in human misery is an insult to all those who have served in our nation’s military,” Arsalan Iftikhar, legal director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in his letter.
An Army spokesman said the Criminal Investigation Division was looking into the matter.
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