Can't say I'm surprised, but I don't think this has anything to do with the obscenity crackdown as much as it does protecting the image of the country around the world.

My feeling is that the Pentagon pulled some strings and got the local authorities to nail this site so it wouldn't cause as much media attention as an FBI raid would have.

This site was an international incident just waiting to happen. The next time our troops were filmed as POW's or dead and we cried about it, the world would have just brought up this site and told us to shut up.

That is what brought this guy down. It's what made the US look bad.

This guy really is a dumbass. He should have known posting such photos could lead to bad things, even if they couldn't get him on the Iraq photos themselves. Now he is going to lose everything.