Authorities reject action in the Marine Corps

The U.S. Government yesterday multiplied their sentences to the behaviour of the alleged Marines appearing in a controversial video that are seen urinating on several corpses of Taliban in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon promised a thorough investigation and the high levels of Government have rushed to declare "deplorable" the event, determined to avoid a new scandal about the behaviour of us soldiers to remember, even distantly, the scandal of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004.

As a source of the Pentagon, under the condition of anonymity, confirmed the Marine Corps has already identified soldiers appearing on the recording belong to the 3rd Battalion of the second Regiment of Marines, based at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

This announcement comes after the US, Leon Panetta, Defense Secretary called today's "totally" u000a"deplorable" the behaviour of us soldiers and report that an immediate and thorough investigation into the matter which has already taken its first fruits. opened

Two of the four marines that you can see in the video have been identified, according to another anonymous source in the Marine Corps, the television channel local KKTV, which also States that apparently the Department of Defense has already confirmed the authenticity of the recording.

"I've seen the images and find the recorded behaviour is totally deplorable," Panetta said in a statement. "I condemn such behaviour in the strongest terms".

The Defense Secretary insisted that such conduct "is totally inappropriate for members of the armed forces of United States" and stressed that it does not reflect the norms and values which the American military swear respect.

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Negotiations u000aWITH the Taliban Afghan
the political wing of the Taliban said Thursday that is ready to begin peace negotiations to end the war in Afghanistan yesterday, but warned that the insurgents will continue to have its Meanwhile armed struggle.

Said in a statement sent by e-mail, the Group hinted that efforts to bring the Afghan factions to the negotiating table being force, but also highlights the obstacles in the path to reaching any agreement, in particular the emphasis placed by the Taliban that the Al President Hamid Karzai's Government is illegitimate "puppet" of the West.

Combatants, Zabiulá Mujahid, spokesman said that they have been fighting for 15 years to establish an Islamic Government in Afghanistan "in accordance with the wishes of its people". But this understanding does not mean an abandonment of the Jihad....

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