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.
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Obama Graib
I agree 100%, and would probably go one step further with those who ‘led’ their men in such actions. If these incidents are proven and are as reported then the ‘leaders’ should, in my opinon, be executed.
However, as far as I know, at the time the article was published, no one had been convicted.
I’ll second that.
It wouldn’t take many court-martials before this crappola stopped cold. That’s one of the major points of shaming them and dishing out severe punishment.
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