Net Body Photos Inquiry Dropped

The US army has dropped an inquiry into whether soldiers posted photographs of dead Iraqis on a website in exchange for access to pornography. A preliminary investigation had failed to determine if US soldiers had posted the gruesome pictures and whether these showed actual war dead. Colonel Joseph Curtin said the investigation could be reopened if new evidence was presented.

"If the army thinks it's in its interest to investigate something, we will."

"There are multiple challenges here. One is the anonymity of the sources, dates, times, locations, units, anything that is reasonably identifiable that we can work off of."

"Any time new information becomes available that's credible... they potentially could reopen the case," he said.