The U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division has caused controversy after photos were released showing soldiers posing next to the dead corpse of failed suicide bombers.
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The LA Times reported that the soldier who provided 18 photos to them did so under a condition of anonymity and said he had hoped that it would force the Army to address security shortcomings.
After receiving the photos, the news outlet provided the photos to Army officials who said that most of the soldiers have been identified, though no names have been released.
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The photos were taken in several separate incidents in 2010 when paratroopers were assigned to go inspect the bodies of suicide bombers discovered by Afghan police.
One soldier, whose name remains unidentified, said that the soldiers “celebrated” because they were just “frustrated” and “pissed off,” considering many of their fellow soldiers and friends has been blown up because of suicide bombers.
Army spokesman George Wright spoke on the incident saying:
“It is a violation of Army standards to pose with corpses for photographs outside of officially sanctioned purposes. Such actions fall short of what we expect of our uniformed service members in deployed areas.”
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby also spoke on the conduct by the soldiers saying:
“The most certainly does not represent the character and the professionalism of the great majority of our troops in Afghanistan….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 army has launched a criminal investigation.
It’s a shame that the world’s most powerful military has individuals who conduct such inexcusable behavior.
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