U.S. Troops Pose With Body Parts of Dead Afghans
The LA Times has photos of U.S. troops in Afghanistan posing with body parts of dead Afghans.
The troops were with the 82nd Airborne Division. In one instance, their mission on the first such occasion was simply to :
Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide bomber. Try to get iris scans and fingerprints for identification.
They did the same while investigating another suicide bombing a few months later. The photos were given to the Times by a soldier in the division. A criminal investigation has been launched:
It is a violation of Army standards to pose with corpses for photographs outside of officially sanctioned purposes," said George Wright, an Army spokesman. "Such actions fall short of what we expect of our uniformed service members in deployed areas."
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