Taliban urination video: US Marines face court martial

Two US Marines will face trial by courts martial for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and posing for photographs with them.

The video caused great embarrassment to the US military and prompted a Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigation, as well as condemnation and an apology from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.



The decision to refer the sergeants for trial comes in the midst of a wave of violent anti-American protests in the Muslim world over a US-made film that ridicules the Prophet Mohammed.

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Karzai condemns U.S. abuse video

[ via Times Colonist ] 12 Jan

The Afghan government and the Taliban condemned Thursday a video purporting to show U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of insurgents, but the Islamists backed negotiations to end their 10-year war.

President Hamid Karzai said in a statement that "the government of Afghanistan is deeply disturbed" of what it called "desecrating dead bodies of three Afghans."

The video - which conjure up previous abuses committed by U.S. troops during the decade-long war - could spark deep anger and resentment in Afghanistan and the wider Muslim world.

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