Posted on 03/21/2011 12:23:18 PM PDT by GreatJoeMcCarthy
The U.S. Army has been forced to apologise over what they have deemed as 'repugnant' photographs of grinning American soldiers standing over bloodied and partially-naked Afghan bodies they had allegedly killed.
The pictures were published by German news organisation Der Spiegel and were among 4,000 they have obtained.
Meanwhile, commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for a public backlash and possible riots over the 'trophy' photographs, especially since it has been alleged that the Afghan civilians were unarmed and innocent.
Senior officials at Nato's International Security Assistance Force in Kabul have compared the pictures published by the German news weekly to the images of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib in Iraq which sparked waves of anti-U.S. protests around the world.
It is feared that these pictures - which show the aftermath of the murders at the hands of a rogue U.S. Stryker 'kill team' - could be even more damaging as the trials of the 12 accused men are currently under way in Seattle.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“Any man that decorates his saloon with my friend better arm himself.”
911 - Never Forget!
Do we know that?
What we do know the photos were a bad idea to take; but that is all we know at this point.
How do know the dead people in the pictures were not attacking our people when killed?
When you train the boys to kill, they sometimes do crazy things as in all wars. You just look the other way and thank them for their duty. They have their own demons to fight with as they grow older.
Thank you. I have photos of my great uncle posing (and smiling!) next to a pile of dead Japs. Movietone newsreels routinely showed proud American soldiers next to mounds of exterminated enemies. Modern politicians and senior military brass are despicable.
I see those pictures of Dresden and I think, “Justice for Warsaw, Rotterdam, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Lidice, etc.”
This thread is repugnant.
I killed two NVA with my .45 in a bunker, was bringing them out of the hole..the 2nd Platoon leader was taking pictures as I was doing this. He was on a 113.
My face and arms were bloody. Did not pose and never saw the photos.
Oh, yes, that’s the same thing. /idiocy
Scheech! Pfc. Manning, Abu Ghraib, now this...why is it always the U.S. Army? Maybe Congress should put it under the Dept. of the Air Force or Navy to learn how to behave like proper soldeiers.
Tell it to SSG Salvatore A. Giunta. (I'm sure it will mean a lot, coming from someone who cannot even SPELL "soldier")
Moron.
Agreed.
Glad you made it back alive FReeper. I missed all that by a couple of years and man am I glad I did.
God bless you pal. I’ll bet there is no glory in your heart for what you had to do.
Stay safe bushpilot1.
Thank you! Well said. I get so tired of hearing people say this Mindlessly. But some actually want to say it - to discourage supporters of our troops.
GUAM, Saturday, March 10—A blanket of fire was thrown over an area of fifteen square miles in the heart of Tokyo early today by a fleet of 300 B-29’s in the largest and most intensified raid on that city to date.
GUAM, Wednesday, March 14— Osaka, Japan’s second city, with a population of 3,500,000, was the target for an armada of Superfortresses early today. From bases in Saipan, Tinian and Guam the B-29’s carried well over 2,000 tons of concentrated death and destruction
GUAM, Saturday, April 14—A great fleet of Superfortresses, heavy with clustered incendiary bombs, rode over Tokyo in the early hours today to strike at the capital’s war industries. The first pilots-returning to this base reported that the target area was a scene of explosions and leaping flame,
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