Is it "SEE, SNAP, SEND" or is it "SHOOT, SEE, SNAP, SEND"? What is happening?
Just imagine a civilian car driver -- maybe drunk -- approaches a US check point in Iraq. Maybe he has lost control where his car is driving. His intentions (passing traveller?) are not clear. Anyway, the soldiers killed him, probably they were in fear what he intended to do. Afterwards, a soldier takes his digicam and some images of the male corpse in the car. He sends the images to his moblog at Yafro (Link1, Link2, Link3):
"See, there's his Beer. If you look closely at his right hand, you can see his Cig." and "If you ever wondered what it was like to be drunk, the[n] Run a US check point. Then 3 SAWs 2 M4 and a few M-16 open up on you."
A reader responded:
"why are u even posting this shit [?]"
The moblogging soldier (alter ego: "crashthesoldier") writes:
"Because people deserve to see the truth. I'm tired of watching CNN and always hearing how " The soldiers skrewed up". This is our side of the story." (Link)
So far about some complaints that the images might be censored*. The comments ("no seatbelt") are outstanding.
"This is our side of the story": we have a medium, a message and an audience.
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*That had been discussed earlier here and here. A new non-military example is "Iran censors photo blog" (JD Lascia).
