Friday, January 20, 2012

Taliban Fighters Rage Over Leaders’ Reaction To Marine Unrination Video

A still image taken January 11, 2012 from an undated YouTube video shows what is believed to be U.S. Marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan. YouTube/Reuters

Taliban Fighters Rage Over Leaders’ Reaction To Video Of Marines Urinating On Insurgent Corpses -- National Post/Reuters

KABUL — Taliban fighters in Afghanistan have been enraged by a video which shows U.S. marines urinating on three corpses, believed to be insurgents, and some say they do not understand their leadership’s relatively measured response to the tape.

News of the clip spread fast across Afghanistan, even though only a minority of people have electricity and the internet is restricted to a tiny urban elite.

Read more ....

Update:
Tape reaction sets Taliban against leaders -- Scoop.nz

My Comment:
This is going to be a non-story in about a week, and for the marines who desecrated the dead Taliban fighters .... they are just going to get a letter of reprimand.

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