[Four Civilian Contractors Killed, Burned & Mutilated in Fallujah]

Story and Graphic Video posted by the Washington Post [March 31, 2004]
"Four civilian contractors were killed in the Iraqi city of Fallujah Wednesday in an attack that left their vehicles in flames, and afterwards at least three of the burned bodies were mutilated, dragged through the streets and suspended from a bridge while a group of Iraqis danced in the streets."
[9 Killed in Separate Attacks in Iraq"]
[Video Report—RealPlayer]

[Deeply disturbing images of the event can be found at The Memory Hole.com. Photo: Karim Sahib-AFP]

Typically we see atrocity photos reproduced as small, fuzzy pictures in newsprint or on the computer screen. Below is a link to a large-scale image that has been used in debates about which images to publish. Does the vivid sense of "being there" produced by scale, detail and the like change the meaning of a picture?
[Altert: This is perhaps the most disturbing image on this site—a charred body of an American contractor hanging from a rope on a bridge while the crowd below celebrates.]

Comments

[Tukun]

The U.S should not be in Iraq and Afganistan in the first place. Stop your support to Terrorist Israel than problem solves.

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[breze]

Contractors do what regular soliders aren't allowed to do because if soldiers shot those who needed to be shot without following rules of engagement it would cause one hell of a clusterfuck. URAH

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[Matt]

I will be the first to say that I despise the comments of liberals. We did not go to Iraq for oil. We went to take saddam out of power. I agree we haven't been successful in providing stability, but Saddam's unlimited power directly affected America. So he didnt have WMDs, but you would have complained when your asses got bombed. Alot of Iraqis don't want us over there, but Blackwater breeds hate inside the appreciative. They probably had it coming.

[haha]

Seems like hatred and war is on this page.No wonder there is so much stupidity.You say its a new millenium with new thinking only theres only been 300 years of documented peace on this earth.By most comments here I can see thats all we may get.All Muslims arent bad,All Americans arent bad.Theres killers in Fallujah,theres killers in Detroit.I dont think anyone here is smart enough to understand,only spout on and on with raised fists,hey just like those in the mideast.One day I understand finding man will be as fine gold,rare and hard to find.Personally I think those days will be of true peace because you will no one to hate or fight.Silly rabbits.

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[bubuda]

what a crappy webpage !
Showing pics don't cut much ice with nobody:
journalists can lie with words and with pics ,too.
What's the use to exhibit these horros ?

why don't you also show dog crap after someone walked over it ?

[Dr. Who]

"Contractors"? Is this the new and improved Mercenary, now with electrolytes?

Mercenaries are the lowest form of scum, actually scratch that... apologist of mercenaries are the lowest form of scum. The war on terror must be so important that we outsourced it...

[ApparentlyiFightForYourIgnorance]

What in the hell is wrong with you people. This is like a new vietnam. An Iraqi kills one of our boys and they get paid a ludicrous amount of Denar, but when a U.S. soldier kills an Iraqi he gets court marshalled and imprisoned or reduced in rank. You make me sick. It's horrible liberalistic socialists like yourselves that have killed many of my good friends. Yes I am an Army soldier here now. Am I proud to be in this war? No. I don't decide this war and I don't kill innocent people. Men here fight to keep each other alive, not for some bullshit divine cause as you state. We fight so when we get home we won't have to be the shoulder that our dead friends wife grieves upon. I have watched as my closest friends are burned alive inside of their armored vehicles and I fire at their 21 gun salute. Meanwhile the so called wrongly accused Iraqi's detonate yet another I.E.D. (improvised explosive device). And we all sit back and wait for the politians to decide what would be the humanitarian thing to do. I am twenty years old and I cringe to think that some of you will live through my childrens generation. I pray that all of you socialist, right wing, freedom haters are dead before my children are grown.

[CongressmanMakeWarNotSoldiers]

What in the hell is wrong with you people. This is like a new vietnam. An Iraqi kills one of our boys and they get paid a ludicrous amount of Denar, but when a U.S. soldier kills an Iraqi he gets court marshalled and imprisoned or reduced in rank. You make me sick. It's horrible liberalistic socialists like yourselves that have killed many of my good friends. Yes I am an Army soldier here now. Am I proud to be in this war? No. I don't decide this war and I don't kill innocent people. Men here fight to keep each other alive, not for some bullshit divine cause as you state. We fight so when we get home we won't have to be the shoulder that our dead friends wife grieves upon. I have watched as my closest friends are burned alive inside of their armored vehicles and I fire at their 21 gun salute. Meanwhile the so called wrongly accused Iraqi's detonate yet another I.E.D. (improvised explosive device). And we all sit back and wait for the politians to decide what would be the humanitarian thing to do. I am twenty years old and I cringe to think that some of you will live through my childrens generation. I pray that all of you socialist, right wing, freedom haters are dead before my children are grown.

[The Slipknot Freak]

One should also bear in mind that these "contractors," as the media likes to refer to them, were in all likelihood U.S. military veterans being paid through U.S. funds for doing jobs so dangerous that you couldn't order soldiers to do them. Most were ex-paratroopers or infantrymen who had laid their life on the line many times while in uniform, and took these dangerous jobs for two reasons: because they believed in their mission to help the Iraqi people, and were trying to earn enough money to go to college when they returned, or send their children back here to college.

The media's casual treatment of them as just nameless nobodies does a disservice to young American men who were heroes before they took these thankless jobs, and still are in my book.

When faced with atrocities like this, the only proper response is wholesale slaughter of the communities that perpetrate them, just as every army in every war has done.

Any lesser response and you might as well turn Europe and the U.S. over to these animals right now and learn which way to face Mecca.

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[Mark Golding]

The people who carry guns in the Middle East with the mistaken idea that they all have some kind of divine authority to get rid of evil, whether they call themselves Moslems or Christians or Jews or Insurgents or Crusaders, all belong to the same family of God haters.
Even the Bible is an insult to Christ.
The spirit that drives these people is from the pit.
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[manu]

Those people who blame others may -might as well look deeper into theirselves.I take responsibility for what is happenning in Iraq.I and my former collectives use to push enough strenght just to tell the president of the United States of America that we filipinos are bound by our disintegrating culture -for unity or division.The Scenario as of this moment is seen as a rich and poor dynamics-waiting for the middle class,the illustrado to make moves.In lieu of this, i, a filipino or pinoy will ever symphatize with the Iraqui's
rather than the U.S.military soldiers who only thinks and focuses straightward-meaning that these young soldiers are the 'ilitterates'who have to invest their courage and go to war.And some are distorting the meaning of patriots or nationalist.Why?Some americans who enlists themselves are for revenge or vendetta for their fellow americans.This is for now.

[Wamid]

You still talk about those four men yes I am sad for them but what about the hundred thousands of Iraqis who were killed by or because of the American's invasion consequences.

Iraqis are people just like the white Americans.

I am so proud of being Iraqi.

[Wamid]

You still talk about those four men yes I am sad for them but what about the hundred thousands of Iraqis who were killed by or because of the American's invasion consequences.

Iraqis are people just like the white Americans.

I am so proud of being Iraqi.

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[jim]

Heres the hard truth. The US is responsible for the deaths of over 650,000 Iraqis, and the Iraqis still alive are pissed off about it. Weve essentially destroyed their country in order to "save their country". They didnt invite us to invade their sovereign country and dont want us there now. Yes, what happened to those mercenaries at Fallujah was appalling but noone should be surprised.

[Nameless]

Sluaghter of the arab people would certianly not solve our problems. This behavior is beyond unexceptable, but it doesn't warrents genocidecide beyond the scale of hilter, stalin, moa, and hussin combined. There are arab people who go to work, raise their kids, watch soccer games with buddies, doing things that you and I do. Fury directed at all arabs makes just about as much sence as hating all black people because you got mugged by one. You people are irrational and hateful.

[Nat Mc Neil]

I am not a bad man buy any means,but I think every muslim should be wiped from the face of the earth.Some will say thats hard,but I dont, the good book say's an eye for an eye well time for some payback on a big scale.But that's only my thought's but you will find it is spreading,and why????we are not hard enough'to many dogooders and fanny's in the goverment trying to be to PC.wASTE THE FUCKS

[john doe]

Not all iraqi's are bad; however, they dont have the will to learn or make themselves better. Its like a nation of welfare-aholics, if u will; and we're the ones who give them their welfare checks.

[anita]

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