Ex-Officer Faces Legal Action for Photos

Saturday May 8, 2004 12:01 PM


WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (AP) - A former National Guard commander accused of photographing naked female U.S. soldiers as they showered at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison faces legal proceedings, officials said.

Capt. Leo V. Merck, 32, of Fremont, Calif., alleged took the photos Nov. 12 and was turned in the next day by the three women.

Merck and the women were part of the 870th Military Police Company of Pittsburg, which patrolled parts of the same prison where other U.S. soldiers photographed their humiliating treatment of naked Iraqi prisoners.

Soldiers from the 870th passed through the Army's Fort Lewis in Washington state last month after leaving Iraq, where they served on active duty for just over a year. Merck has been ordered to return to Fort Lewis to face legal action.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4067315,00.html

Well it seems that our democratic principles really are at work. We photograph everyone as long as they don't have clothes on.

just a harmless fraternity prank ferchrissake.

(do I really need to add a "sarcasm" disclaimer here??)

Remember how howlingly funny it was in the movie M.A.S.H. when the whole company watched as they lowered the shower stall on a naked Hot Lips? Hey, exposing and laughing at naked women is just guys having some fun.

(Major Sarcasm reporting!)

Skarbrowe

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Yeah, the aply-named "Rush" Dimblob is the one.

Must be some thing men like to do.All would be cured if these people would just be art majors in college. You would be so sick of looking at every inch or a nude body for 4 years you would never wish to see another.

Taking photos of women showering = bad

Taking photos of prisoner abuse = not so bad

I wonder if this is how the conservative commentators will spin it.