The images that shocked America

MANY major newspapers ran graphic photos yesterday of charred bodies of Americans killed in Iraq, while the images were largely shunned by American television as being too graphic.

Eight photographs of the Fallujah attack, including the corpses being dragged in the streets and hanging from a bridge, were transmitted on Wednesday by The Associated Press with an advisory to editors to “note graphic content”.

An AP photo of the bridge scene with the bodies clearly visible was used on the front page of The New York Times.