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Posted at 05:11 PM ET, 01/11/2012
Video appears to show troops urinating on corpses
By Craig Whitlock
The Marine Corps said Wednesday that it is investigating the origins of a video on the Internet that purports to show Marines in combat gear urinating on the corpses of three Taliban insurgents.
The brief video, which runs for less than a minute, began circulating on Web sites early Wednesday. It depicts four Marines laughing as they relieve themselves while standing over three prostrate bodies. (The video, which includes graphic images, appears here.)
A caption asserts that the Marines are part of a scout sniper team with the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, an infantry unit from Camp Lejeune, N.C. Members of the unit were deployed to Afghanistan last year but returned in September.
Capt. Kendra N. Hardesty, a Marine Corps spokesman, said officials would fully investigate the matter but so far have been unable to verify the videos authenticity or if members of the battalion were involved.
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