Germany orders inquiry into Afghan skull photos
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Newspaper pictures purporting to show German soldiers desecrating a human skull in Afghanistan caused outrage in Germany on Wednesday...
A photograph of a smiling soldier in fatigues posing with a skull was splashed on the front page of top-selling German daily Bild under the headline: "Shock photos of German troops."
Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung told ZDF television six suspects had been identified in conjunction with the probe -- four of them former soldiers, and two who were still serving.
The images were apparently taken more than three years ago.
Other photographs showed an unidentified soldier clutching the skull next to his exposed penis and the skull resting on the front wing of a light armored vehicle. Bild said the soldiers were on a routine tour around the Afghan capital Kabul.
State prosecutors in Potsdam said they had launched a probe into a possible case of desecrating the dead.
Moral of the post... Never take photos doing somthing stoopid unless you want to be published many year from now and can suffer the consequences. -
yar
8th core value -
morons. utter morons.
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where are the skull photos?
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Shades of the Third Reich
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no one cares as long as you don't wear army uniform.
or velcro other countries' flag onto your uniform.