In February, the inadvertent burning of copies of the Koran at a U. In March, a U. Army sergeant went on a nighttime shooting rampage in two Afghan villages, killing The paratroopers that took the macabre photos had been deployed to get "iris scans and fingerprints" of the suicide bombers who had accidentally blown themselves up.
The soldier who provided the photos to the Times did so on the condition of anonymity — though the paper provided some details:. Bragg, N. He said the photos point to a breakdown in leadership and discipline that he believed compromised the safety of the troops.
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Afghan officials rejected the US account of events, saying multiple assailants had carried out the attack. The previous month, the accidental burning of copies of the Koran at a US base sparked riots that left dozens dead and hundreds wounded.
And in January, video surfaced on the internet showing four US marines urinating on slain Afghan men. US officials identified the four marines in the video and launched an investigation, while the Secretary of State said they may be guilty of war crimes.
However, despite attempts by Washington to manage the fallout from the incident, the blowback was almost immediate. Hallinan believes that the US military, frustrated over its inability to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan, are shifting their anger onto innocent parties. This website uses cookies. Nevertheless, this imagery — more than two years old — now has the potential to indict them all in the minds of local Afghans, inciting violence and perhaps causing needless casualties.
The photos were taken during a yearlong deployment of the 3,member brigade, which lost 35 men during that time, according to icasualties. At least 23 were killed by homemade bombs or suicide bombers. The platoon whose soldiers posed for the photos was part of the battalion.
The soldier who provided the photos, and two other former members of the battalion, said in separate interviews that they and others had complained of inadequate security at the two bases. An Army investigation into a July suicide attack in Kandahar that killed four U. Virtually all of the men depicted in the photos had friends who were killed or wounded by homemade bombs or suicide attacks, according to the soldier who provided the images.
One paratrooper on the mission wore a bracelet bearing the name of a fallen comrade. On the first mission, to the police station in the provincial capital of Qalat, Afghan police told the platoon that the severed legs belonged to a suicide bomber whose explosives detonated as he tried to attack a police unit, according to the soldier who provided the photos. On the second mission, to the morgue in Qalat in late April or early May , Afghan police told the platoon that explosives had detonated as three insurgents were preparing a roadside bomb.
The platoon was able to obtain some fingerprints from the corpses for a database maintained by U. The soldiers felt a sense of triumph and satisfaction, especially after learning that the insurgents had been killed by their own explosives, he said.
The Qalat photos were circulated among several members of the platoon, the soldier said, and soldiers often joked about them. Most of the soldiers in the photos were low-ranking — including six specialists or privates.
Margaret Kageleiry, an Army spokeswoman. The soldier who provided The Times with a series of 18 photos of soldiers posing with corpses did so on condition of anonymity. Bragg, N. He said the photos point to a breakdown in leadership and discipline that he believed compromised the safety of the troops. The photos were taken during a yearlong deployment of the 3,member brigade, which lost 35 men during that time, according to icasualties.
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