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issue to be more like an onion, where the layer below is not much different
than the layer above. It's a tough issue to get Muslim women to talk about.
In that culture rape carries shame because one's virginity is taken away
and they no longer are eligible for marriage. In Islamic culture sex outside
of marriage is rare and frowned upon. Adultery and fortification are
punished by death by stoning in most Muslim countries. Hence getting
women to come forward is sometimes almost impossible and many
Americans know that which makes the act seem even more heinous.
(Photos: Der Spiegel) SPIEGEL published some of the photos.
The images are repulsive. A group of rogue US Army soldiers in
Afghanistan killed innocent civilians and then posed with their bodies.
On March 24,2011 the German news outlet Der Spiegel published
photographs of what appear to be two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan posing
over the bodies of dead Afghans - images which threaten to further
complicate the American military effort there. Two images show the
soldiers kneeling by a bloody body sprawled over a patch of sand and
grass. A third shows what appears to be two bodies propped up, back to
back, against a post in front of a military vehicle. Der Spiegel identifies
the soldiers as Spc. Jeremy Morlock and Pfc. Andrew Holmes, who are
both facing charges relating to the wrongful deaths of Afghan civilians.
Holmes and Morlock are among 12 soldiers from the 5th Stryker
Brigade accused of taking part in a plot to murder three Afghan civilians,
plant weapons on them and cover up the alleged crimes. Holmes and
another soldier Pfc.Gibbs are accused of cutting off some of the men's
body parts to keep as war trophies. He faces a potential life sentence in a