Video shows American troops in Afghanistan urinating on dead bodies
Video footage has shown US marines treating dead members of the Taliban militant group with utmost immorality.
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The US Marine Corps says it is launching an investigation after a video was published on the internet appearing to show US marines urinating on dead bodies i...
U.S. Marine Corp investigating SHOCKING video--this just in from RT TV. The secret finally got out! This is THE TIP of the ICEBERG! As seen with the "kill for sport" trials of 7 soldiers at Joint Base Leiws McChord, I suspect this behavior has been kept under wraps, but has been, like police abuse here in domestic America, RAMPANT!
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An eye-opening video clip that made it online Wednesday may cause a scandal on par with what erupted with the Abu Ghraib photographs of 2004. Now US Marines have been caught on film - urinating on dead Afghans.
"'Marines urinating on corpses' video appears."
ARE THEY THE SOLDIERS OF UNCLE SAM-THE RENOWNED WORLD PREACHER OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY TO BE PROUD OF ... ?
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Marine Corps to investigate a video showing what appears to be US forces in Afghanistan urinating on dead bodies.
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Video posted anonymously on YouTube of American troops in Afghanistan urinating on dead bodies
US military officials believe the video showing four Marines urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan is legitimate and promise a swift investigation. |
Reuters - By Phil Stewart | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A video appearing to show US Marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters promises to become an enduring memory of the Afghan war and is already drawing sharp reaction from across the world as it ... |
US marines accused of war crimes
Video posted anonymously on YouTube claims to show American troops in Afghanistan urinating on dead bodies
Chris McGreal in Washington
The Guardian, 12 January 2012
US marines have been accused of war crimes after a video was posted on YouTube of soldiers urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan. Photograph: David Goldman/AP
US forces in Afghanistan are facing fresh accusations of war crimes after film emerged which appears to show American marines urinating on dead bodies and laughing.
The US military command in Kabul, which was severely embarrassed last year by revelations that Americans soldiers were running a "kill squad" murdering Afghan civilians, said it would investigate the undated video, and that if it proved to be authentic, desecration of corpses would be regarded as a serious crime. Despoiling of the dead is illegal under the Geneva conventions as well as under US military law.
In the graphic short video, four soldiers in combat gear and carrying weapons are seen acting in unison as they urinate on three bloodied corpses. One of the soldiers sighs with relief, another says "yeah" and a third laughs. One remarks: "Have a great day, buddy". Another says: "Golden, like a shower". A fifth soldier films the incident.
The video was posted anonymously on Wednesday along with a caption that said: "scout sniper team 4 with 3rd battalion 2nd marines out of camp lejeune peeing on dead talibans". Military officials confirmed that the soldiers appear to be carrying rifles of a kind issued to sniper teams in Afghanistan. A US department of defence spokesman, Captain John Kirby, told CNN: "Regardless of the circumstances or who is in the video, this is egregious, disgusting behaviour. It's hideous. It turned my stomach."
The marine corps said in a statement: "While we have not yet verified the origin or authenticity of this video, the actions portrayed are not consistent with our core values and are not indicative of the character of the Marines in our Corps. This matter will be fully investigated."
The promise of an investigation is unlikely to quiet concern at yet another revelation of abuses by American forces. Last year, 11 soldiers were convicted over the murders of three Afghan civilians by a "kill squad" and the subsequent cover up. It was revealed that some of them collected body parts, including fingers and skull parts, as trophies, and posed for photographs over the corpses of their victims.
The US military has also yet to live down the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and the use of waterboarding and other torture of alleged terrorists held at Guantánamo. The US marines corps is also under scrutiny after the trial began this week of one of its soldiers, Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, charged with the deaths of 24 Iraqis during an attack in 2005.
Wuterich was commanding a group of soldiers who burst into the victims' homes in Haditha and shot women, children and men in their nightclothes. He is accused of manslaughter. Seven other soldiers also charged were either acquitted or had the case against them dropped. A US congressman compared the killings in Haditha to the infamous My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
The Haditha killings contributed to the Iraqi government's refusal to agree to immunity for US troops after the formal withdrawal of American forces at the end of last year.
Video: US forces urinate on dead Taliban
US marines patrolling in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan on September 5, 2011
Newly-surfaced video footage has shown US marines treating dead members of the Taliban militant group with utmost immorality.
The video, which was posted on the video-sharing website YouTube as well as other websites on Wednesday, shows four US Marine Corps in camouflage uniforms making lewd jokes, while urinating on the bodies of three Taliban militants. It was not immediately known where and when the incident took place.
The US Marine Corps has said it would investigate the video, calling the actions of the troops caught on the video disgusting. "While we have not yet verified the origin or authenticity of this video, the actions portrayed are not consistent with our core values and are not indicative of the character of the Marines in our Corps," it said in a statement.
The desecration of the corpses has drawn the anger of the Muslims in the US. A US-based Muslim civil rights group condemned the heinous incident in a letter to US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
"Any guilty parties must be punished to the full extent allowed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice and by relevant American laws," the Council on American-Islamic Relations wrote in a letter.
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Terrorist Are Terrorist Chahhee Wo Muslim Hoo Ya Non Muslim
Non Muslim jo Marzii Karee Un ko Koi Nahii Bolta Terrorist
Aghar Koi Musalman Country Assa Karrre To Wo Terrorist Hai Aghar Non Muslim Country Karee tu Ye Un Ka Appas Ka Maslah hai
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