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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Doesn't it hurt when your pants are on fire like that?

Remember last week when it appeared a US unit in Afghanistan shot up everything in sight after they were attacked, and afterwards, the soldiers on the scene deleted photos from a number of news photographers?

Well, the military has issued an explanation.
The U.S. military asserted that an American soldier was justified in erasing journalists' footage of the aftermath of a suicide bombing and shooting in Afghanistan last week, saying publication could have compromised a military investigation and led to false public conclusions.....

He added that photographs or video taken by "untrained people" might "capture visual details that are not as they originally were."

Right.

2 Comments:

  • I love that last quote. How's that for tortured logic?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:20 AM  

  • It's just horrible.

    After all the press the destroying of the photographs got, there's a reasion this was in the Friday dump.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 12:14 PM  

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