Probe Over Dead Taliban Snaps

10th May 2014

Why bother?




Photographs which appear to show at least one UK serviceman posing with a dead Taliban fighter are being treated "extremely seriously", the RAF says.

The pictures were taken after a 2012 attack on Camp Bastion, UK troops' main base in Afghanistan. They first appeared on the website Live Leak.

Two RAF Regiment members have been withdrawn from front-line duties.

The taking of so-called trophy photographs is strictly forbidden and military police are investigating.

The images show some of the damage caused in the attack, but two appear to show at least one member of the RAF Regiment giving a thumbs-up sign while kneeling next to the bloodied body of a dead insurgent.

It is not clear whether the same serviceman is in both pictures.

The RAF Regiment is the ground fighting force of the Royal Air Force.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27354339

That's a horrible photo. Death is death. No need to crow over it.