BERLIN (Reuters) - Newspaper pictures purporting to show German
soldiers desecrating a human skull in Afghanistan caused outrage in
Germany on Wednesday...
A photograph of a smiling soldier in fatigues posing with a skull
was splashed on the front page of top-selling German daily Bild
under the headline: "Shock photos of German troops."
Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung told ZDF television six suspects
had been identified in conjunction with the probe -- four of them
former soldiers, and two who were still serving.
The images were apparently taken more than three years ago.
Other photographs showed an unidentified soldier clutching the
skull next to his exposed penis and the skull resting on the front
wing of a light armored vehicle. Bild said the soldiers were on a
routine tour around the Afghan capital Kabul.
State prosecutors in Potsdam said they had launched a probe into a
possible case of desecrating the dead.
Moral of the post... Never take photos doing somthing
stoopid unless you want to be published many year from now and can
suffer the consequences.
