04-24-2004, 12:41 AM
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Cracking the Whip
Location: Sexymama's arms...
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Originally posted by Sparhawk
Here's the site hosting the pictures, I took a look this morning, but it looks like it is getting Hammered by traffic:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/
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Ironically,
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=947
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DOD Misidentifies Photos of Columbia Crew Remains Arriving at Dover AFB as Being Iraq War Dead
Keith Cowing
Friday, April 23, 2004
If you look at the originating website (www.thememoryhole.org) titled "Photos of Military Coffins (Casualties From Iraq) at Dover Air Force Base" for the controversial photos of war dead being returned from Iraq (loads very slow), you will see that most of the first page of photos are of Space Shuttle Columbia crew remains arriving at Dover Air Force Base on 5 February 2003.
You see, that is Deputy NASA Administrator Fred Gregory in the light brown slacks and dark jacket standing to the left of the honor guard. The images in the first 18 rows, and one image in the 19th row, are all images taken on that day.
According to a notice on thememoryhole.org (which is very hard to reach) a FOIA request was sent to the Department of Defense asking for "All photographs showing caskets (or other devices) containing the remains of US military personnel at Dover AFB. This would include, but not be limited to, caskets arriving, caskets departing, and any funerary rites/rituals being performed. The timeframe for these photos is from 01 February 2003 to the present."
The Department of Defense complied with the request but did not differentiate between photos dealing with "the remains of US military personnel" and the remains of NASA (or Israeli) astronauts. As such, a resonable person might well assume that the photos were all of military activities. They clearly are not.
SpaceRef featured several of these photos on 5 February 2003: Deputy Administrator Meets Space Shuttle Columbia Astronauts' Remains at Dover AFB
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