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March 21, 2011

Leaked Photos Show U.S. Soldiers Posing With Dead Afghan Civilians 
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The U.S. Army has issued an apology after the German newsmagazine Der
Spiegel published a series of photographs that appear to show U.S.
soldiers posing with the corpse of a civilian in Afghanistan. The photos
are graphic and have been compared to the pictures that emerged from the
Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. In one photograph, a U.S. soldier is seen
smiling as he posed with the bloodied and partially naked corpse.
Another photo shows a solider holding the head of the Afghan man. The
soldiers in the photographs are on trial for forming a secret "kill
team" in Afghanistan that murdered unarmed Afghan civilians at random
and collected body parts. The photographs were entered as evidence into
the trial, but were not meant to be seen by the public.



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