Help Fallujah in Pictures

A competing vision of the Fallujah operation is presented by the blog titled “Iraq in Pictures” (www.fallujahinpictures.com), which Krohn says is far more similar to what Iraqis, and the Arab world, see on their satellite news channels.

The site has become one of the hotter blogs on the Internet, receiving thousands of visits a day.

In the version of the Web site that was up last week, the first image on the site showed a malnourished Iraqi baby, wide-eyed and screaming in pain, under the sarcastic headline, “another grateful Iraqi civilian.”

Many of the photographs are far more graphic than are usually carried in newspapers, showing headless bodies, bloodied troops, wounded women, and bandaged babies missing limbs. The Seattle Times generally does not run extremely gory photos, but it has run a number of pictures of the violence in Iraq, including those of slain American civilians hanging from a bridge in Fallujah and U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison.

One photo added to the blog recently shows a U.S. soldier with part of his face blown away by a bomb.

The blog also amounts to a critique of the U.S. news media. Another section of the site, under the headline, “Also not in today’s news,” shows a photograph of a Marine propped against a concrete wall, grimacing as he is treated for a shrapnel wound in his upper right leg.

The blogger — who in an e-mail responding to a query identified himself as “Hugh Upton,” but when questioned said that was a pseudonym — explained on his Web site that one of its purposes is to show the ugliness of what he believes is really going on in Iraq.

“The world sees these images and we do not,” he states. “That scares the hell out of me, as it should you.”



This guy is sharing things that the US Media probably never will, sadly. He's also recently posted his first appeal for donations to keep the site going. Obviously, Bush is helping keep too many of us who would oppose what he's doing in Iraq too poor to really help, but those of you out there who can, should. And everyone should at least visit the site and lend your support by seeing the work he's done.