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US Troops Pose with Afghan Corpses
Today's Los Angeles Times made news world wide by publishing photographs of American soldiers posing with the body parts of Afghans who apparently blew themselves up trying to manufacture explosives. The front page shows a soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division with what appears to be the hand of a dead bomb-maker on his shoulder.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readToday's Los Angeles Times made news world wide by publishing photographs of American soldiers posing with the body parts of Afghans who apparently blew themselves up trying to manufacture explosives. The front page shows a soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division with what appears to be the hand of a dead bomb-maker on his shoulder. Is such behavior understandable? Is it forgivable?
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Frances Anderton
architecture critic and author
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
David Zucchino
Los Angeles Times
Craig Whitlock
investigative reporter, The Washington Post
Alissa Johannsen Rubin
New York Times