US Soldiers Piss on Dead Afghan Bodies (WARNING GRAPHIC)
Over ten years in Afghanistan killing innocent civilians and American soldiers decide to urinate on a couple Afghan dead bodies to show their support for the war.
Video shows US marines urinating on dead bodies in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — The US Marine Corps says it will investigate a video posted on the internet which appears to show US soldiers in Afghanistan urinating on corpses.
In a statement issued on Wednesday after the footage came to light, the corps said the matter would be fully investigated.
“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,” the statement said.
The video, which was first posted on the Live Leak website, shows four men in military uniforms urinating on three bloodied bodies on the ground, apparently aware that they were being filmed.
One of them jokes: “Have a nice day, buddy.” The other makes a lewd joke about a shower.
“Regardless of the circumstances or who is in the video, this is… egregious, disgusting behavior, unacceptable for anyone in uniform,” said John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman. “It turned my stomach,” he said.
In a statement, the Taliban said the incident was “against all international human rights” but “not the only example of the horrific actions that the Americans have done in Afghanistan”.
“American soldiers are trained to spread horror and this is one of the examples,” the Taliban said.
However, the group’s statement added that the incident would not affect negotiations with the US after US officials said Washington would send an envoy to Afghanistan to prepare the ground for direct peace talks.
Some 20,000 marines are deployed in Afghanistan, mostly in Kandahar and Helmand provinces in the south of the war-ravaged country.
The video could aggravate anti-US sentiment in Afghanistan after a decade of a war that has seen other cases of abuse.
The US military has been prosecuting soldiers from its army’s 5th Stryker Brigade on charges of murdering unarmed Afghan civilians while deployed in 2010 in Kandahar province.
In that case, photographs published last March by two magazines – Der Spiegel and Rolling Stone – showed soldiers posing with the bloodied corpse of an Afghan boy they had just killed.
A Muslim civil rights group in the US condemned the alleged desecration of corpses in a letter to Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary.
“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 said in the letter, a copy of which was sent to media organisations.
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cgreene - January 13, 2012
This is the equivalent of what Obama did to the U.S. Constitution when he signed into law the NDAA. Just because you wear a suit and tie when you commit heinous crimes doesn’t make it any different.
IBAMIE - January 13, 2012
This totally supports the “They hate us because we’re free” argument.
When I see things like this, it makes me sick. My father is a Marine and what these men did was a dishonor to the entire Marine Corp as well as the American people.
laurabernal - January 14, 2012
I have a good source that says this video is old and that the military knew it existed for quite some time. Having been educated on War tactics this video is perfectly timed to help add to the growing anger of those the Gov seeks to destroy. Then the press adds the pics from all the other pass war tactic videos and pics especially of GITMO abuse and it will remind them (their enemies) how much we disregard their feelings and their value as humans. This enhances their desire to strike at us and then allows us to return with the heavy hand of supposive justice.
smBaker - January 18, 2012
I still can’t believe a lot of American’s believe people in the Middle East hate us because they are just raised that way. They hate us because we do absolutely appalling things like this. People this immature and inhuman should not be allowed to serve in our military.