Sacked for photo Americans weren't meant to see
Last Sunday a newspaper in Seattle, Washington, published a rare photograph of soldiers' coffins, each of them containing the body of an American who had died in Iraq. The coffins, each draped with the Stars and Stripes, had been loaded into the back of a cargo aircraft for a final journey to the US, where they would be buried. There were at least 18 of them in the picture, which was taken by a 50-year-old civilian contractor, Tami Silicio. On Wednesday Ms Silicio was sacked from her job, for taking the photograph and sharing it with news organizations.
Citizens, politicians and soldiers are squaring off over pictures of flag-draped coffins coming home from Iraq.
[The leaking of photos that "Americans were not meant to see", will prompt an unprecedented number to find such images. These arouse subtle "patriotic" emotion that help sell the rulers' control myths to the populace.]
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