Embarked U.S. Marines yesterday in the first formal step towards the possible indictments of four of its soldiers appeared in a video they are urinating on the bodies of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, after the incident sparked angry reactions.
The official said Marine declined to be named, told Reuters that the Marine Corps has appointed an investigating officer and his job includes determining the charges against the soldiers if they are to be charged to them were identified the four soldiers.
The official was not one of the arrested suspects, and another official said that the unit belongs to the four soldiers were serving in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan in the period from March / March to September / September 2011.
It is likely to include investigation of other persons, including the person who filmed the desecration of the dead, and any other person may have been watching it and behind the camera.
The move came at a time, following the convictions for the violation, which was the oldest American soldiers.
Denounce theIt is likely that this incident raises the anti-United States, already strong in Afghanistan, after ten years of war that has seen previous cases of violations. The violation of this may complicate efforts to promote reconciliation in a time when foreign forces withdraw gradually.
And denounced the Al-Azhar Al-Sharif incident yesterday and described the Grand Imam of Al-Tayeb conduct of American soldiers as "a flagrant violation of the sanctity of the martyrs of Afghans, and the work of grotesque violates all the principles of urbanization humanitarian and international laws," adding that this work "shows that" the bankruptcy and the emptiness of the civilization of which belongs to the soldiers, deprived of all human meaning and moral. "
The U.S. Department of Defense have been quick to respond to the video, in the hope its minister Leon Panetta and other top U.S. officials to limit the consequences.
Panetta and contact by telephone with President Hamid Karzai to condemn the behavior of soldiers in the video, said the President of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, "These actions are illegal."
DesecrationKarzai has called for U.S. authorities to punish the perpetrators harshest sentence possible, said in a statement that "this action committed by U.S. soldiers is a very humane," and condemned the Taliban, the incident and considered barbaric and brutal act.
Gen. Curtis Kaparota, who heads the daily operations in Afghanistan in a message to the soldiers the day before yesterday, "The desecration and violation of the sanctity of the dead rebels and mocking their Vongravea and photograph or video for personal purposes, represents a serious violation of the law of armed conflict."
And shows the video posted on "YouTube" and other sites on the Internet four Marines fighting camouflage clothes urinated on the bodies of three dead, and someone says "I wish you a pleasant day, my friend."
It was not possible until now to make sure that the dead were actually Taliban, said the commander of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos said in a statement yesterday that he will not rest "until this is resolved and allegations surrounding events."
Source: Agencies