October 24, 2005
Afghanistan
:A public relations disaster for the United States is coming from the first front on the war on terror. It was announced Wednesday that the Army is investigating criminal behavior amid allegations that American soldiers had burned the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters and used the smoking corpses to frighten the insurgents. Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the burnings and said that he was taken aback by the pictures he witnessed. The Muslim faith prhibits cremation and holds respect for human remains. Meanwhile, provisional results have been released a month after elections were held for Afghanistan’s Parliament and it appears that Islamic conservatives won large portions of the vote.
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