U.S. troops face punishment over Koran burning, urination video [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

U.S. troops face punishment over Koran burning, urination video
Reuters – 24 mins ago.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military is expected to announce disciplinary action on Monday in response to two incidents that provoked outrage in Afghanistan early this year, one over a video depicting Marines urinating on corpses and another involving burning copies of the Koran, U.S. officials said.

The Army was expected to announce that six soldiers would receive administrative punishments over an incident in which copies of the Koran and other religious material were removed from a prison library and sent to an incinerator to be destroyed, a U.S. official said on condition of anonymity.

The incident in February touched off several days of rioting and attacks on U.S. troops after local workers found charred copies of the Koran among the trash at the incinerator at the Bagram base north of Kabul.

U.S. President Barack Obama sent a letter to Afghan President Hamid Karzai apologizing for the incident. U.S. officials at the time said some of the religious material had been removed from the prison library at Bagram because of concern that it was extremist in nature and was being used to pass messages among prisoners.


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