Pentagon condemns release of photos showing soldiers with dead Afghans
By David Martin
(CBS News) WASHINGTON - They are literally the pictures the Pentagon didn't want you to see. American soldiers posing with the dismembered remains of enemy suicide bombers, were published Wednesday by the Los Angeles Times despite pleas from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
The White House called the photos reprehensible. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports.
"We had urged the L.A. Times not to run these photos and the reason for that is those kinds of photos are used by the enemy to incite violence," Panetta said at a press conference Wednesday.
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April 18, 2012 7:44 PM
By David Martin
Soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division pose with the mangled corpse of a suicide bomber in Afghanistan's Zabol province. (Credit: LA Times)
A soldier from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division poses with a dead insurgent's hand on his shoulder. (Credit: LA Times)
(CBS News) WASHINGTON - They are literally the pictures the Pentagon didn't want you to see. American soldiers posing with the dismembered remains of enemy suicide bombers, were published Wednesday by the Los Angeles Times despite pleas from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
The White House called the photos reprehensible. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports.
"We had urged the L.A. Times not to run these photos and the reason for that is those kinds of photos are used by the enemy to incite violence," Panetta said at a press conference Wednesday.
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