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Afghan soldier killed four French troops after watching US ‘desecration’ video
Afghan military says man had watched video that appears to show US marines abusing the corpses of Taliban fightersA spokesman for the Afghan military says a soldier who turned on French troops and killed four of them was angry about a video purporting to show US marines desecrating the bodies of Taliban insurgents. The 21-year-old recruit had viewed the video, which was widely distributed on YouTube and other video-sharing websites, a defence ministry spokesman, General Mohammad Zahir Azimi, said.
published date:Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:15:30 GMT