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'Repugnant': U.S. army apologises for graphic photos of soldiers with civilian corpses
The Daily Mail - U.K. ^ | March 21, 2011 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 03/21/2011 12:23:18 PM PDT by GreatJoeMcCarthy

The U.S. Army has been forced to apologise over what they have deemed as 'repugnant' photographs of grinning American soldiers standing over bloodied and partially-naked Afghan bodies they had allegedly killed.

The pictures were published by German news organisation Der Spiegel and were among 4,000 they have obtained.

Meanwhile, commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for a public backlash and possible riots over the 'trophy' photographs, especially since it has been alleged that the Afghan civilians were unarmed and innocent.

Senior officials at Nato's International Security Assistance Force in Kabul have compared the pictures published by the German news weekly to the images of U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib in Iraq which sparked waves of anti-U.S. protests around the world.

It is feared that these pictures - which show the aftermath of the murders at the hands of a rogue U.S. Stryker 'kill team' - could be even more damaging as the trials of the 12 accused men are currently under way in Seattle.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: army; german; newspaper; photos
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To: GreatJoeMcCarthy

“Any man that decorates his saloon with my friend better arm himself.”

911 - Never Forget!


41 posted on 03/21/2011 4:21:11 PM PDT by APatientMan (Pick a side)
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
“These guys deliberately targeted innocent civilians for laughs. They aren’t collateral damage, they are victims of deliberate murder...”

Do we know that?

What we do know the photos were a bad idea to take; but that is all we know at this point.

How do know the dead people in the pictures were not attacking our people when killed?

42 posted on 03/21/2011 4:24:01 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Yes We Can, have smaller government)
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To: fightinJAG
lets try to find them and put them in prison. Photobucket
43 posted on 03/21/2011 4:25:20 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: fightinJAG
We can put these Marines in prison.. Photobucket
44 posted on 03/21/2011 4:27:54 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: GreatJoeMcCarthy

When you train the boys to kill, they sometimes do crazy things as in all wars. You just look the other way and thank them for their duty. They have their own demons to fight with as they grow older.


45 posted on 03/21/2011 4:28:49 PM PDT by jetson
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To: fightinJAG
Photobucket
46 posted on 03/21/2011 4:30:20 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1

Thank you. I have photos of my great uncle posing (and smiling!) next to a pile of dead Japs. Movietone newsreels routinely showed proud American soldiers next to mounds of exterminated enemies. Modern politicians and senior military brass are despicable.


47 posted on 03/21/2011 4:34:24 PM PDT by 10mm
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To: fightinJAG
Can we put in prison any remaining B29 crew members? Photobucket
48 posted on 03/21/2011 4:38:08 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1

I see those pictures of Dresden and I think, “Justice for Warsaw, Rotterdam, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Lidice, etc.”


49 posted on 03/21/2011 4:38:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

This thread is repugnant.

I killed two NVA with my .45 in a bunker, was bringing them out of the hole..the 2nd Platoon leader was taking pictures as I was doing this. He was on a 113.

My face and arms were bloody. Did not pose and never saw the photos.


50 posted on 03/21/2011 4:51:05 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1

Oh, yes, that’s the same thing. /idiocy


51 posted on 03/21/2011 4:56:01 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: 10mm
Photobucket
52 posted on 03/21/2011 4:59:57 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: GreatJoeMcCarthy

Scheech! Pfc. Manning, Abu Ghraib, now this...why is it always the U.S. Army? Maybe Congress should put it under the Dept. of the Air Force or Navy to learn how to behave like proper soldeiers.


53 posted on 03/21/2011 6:04:40 PM PDT by ironangel
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To: ironangel
Scheech! Pfc. Manning, Abu Ghraib, now this...why is it always the U.S. Army? Maybe Congress should put it under the Dept. of the Air Force or Navy to learn how to behave like proper soldeiers.

Tell it to SSG Salvatore A. Giunta. (I'm sure it will mean a lot, coming from someone who cannot even SPELL "soldier")

Moron.

54 posted on 03/21/2011 7:00:31 PM PDT by PalmettoMason (It's easy being a menace to society when WAY OVER half the population is happy being sheep.)
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To: 10mm
Tokyo 1945. "Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier." Curtis Lemay Photobucket
55 posted on 03/21/2011 7:19:01 PM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1

Agreed.

Glad you made it back alive FReeper. I missed all that by a couple of years and man am I glad I did.

God bless you pal. I’ll bet there is no glory in your heart for what you had to do.

Stay safe bushpilot1.


56 posted on 03/21/2011 10:45:15 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond, call me what you will.)
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To: lmr

Thank you! Well said. I get so tired of hearing people say this Mindlessly. But some actually want to say it - to discourage supporters of our troops.


57 posted on 03/21/2011 11:21:45 PM PDT by Anita1 ("Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.")
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To: GreatJoeMcCarthy

GUAM, Saturday, March 10—A blanket of fire was thrown over an area of fifteen square miles in the heart of Tokyo early today by a fleet of 300 B-29’s in the largest and most intensified raid on that city to date.


58 posted on 03/22/2011 5:38:05 AM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: GreatJoeMcCarthy

GUAM, Wednesday, March 14— Osaka, Japan’s second city, with a population of 3,500,000, was the target for an armada of Superfortresses early today. From bases in Saipan, Tinian and Guam the B-29’s carried well over 2,000 tons of concentrated death and destruction


59 posted on 03/22/2011 5:39:58 AM PDT by bushpilot1
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To: GreatJoeMcCarthy

GUAM, Saturday, April 14—A great fleet of Superfortresses, heavy with clustered incendiary bombs, rode over Tokyo in the early hours today to strike at the capital’s war industries. The first pilots-returning to this base reported that the target area was a scene of explosions and leaping flame,


60 posted on 03/22/2011 5:41:50 AM PDT by bushpilot1
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