Report:US Soldiers Desecrated Bodies of Taliban Fighters, Taunted Villagers

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB2Y0ZJ0FE.html

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The U.S. military said Wednesday it was investigating a report carried on an Australian television network that claimed American soldiers in Afghanistan burned the bodies of two Taliban fighters and then used the action to taunt other Islamic militants.

The SBS television network broadcast video footage that purportedly showed U.S. soldiers burning the bodies of the suspected Taliban fighters in the hills outside the southern village of Gonbaz, near the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.

The network said the footage was taken by a freelance journalist, Stephen Dupont, who told The Associated Press he was embedded with the 173rd Airborne Brigade of the U.S. Army earlier this month. Dupont said the burnings happened on Oct. 1.

In the footage, which was seen by the AP, two soldiers who spoke with American accents later read taunting messages that the SBS said were broadcast to the village, which was believed to be harboring Taliban soldiers.

must understand that within our armed forces are people who would be a part of racist militias, nazi and skinhead and klan groups if they were still at home or at least those who have that mindset.

Then again, some stories are just pure propaganda.