Gareeb
10-26-2006, 05:02 AM
BERLIN — German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung on Wednesday, October 25, ordered an investigation after a newspaper printed photographs of German soldiers in Afghanistan playing and posing with a skull.
"These pictures revolt and mystify me," Jung told the popular daily Bild, which splashed the photographs on its front page, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The minister threatened to dismiss the soldiers in question and said they were likely to face not only a military probe but criminal proceedings.
"People who behave like this have no place in the Bundeswehr (the Armed Forces)," he told reporters.
The photographs show four German soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) displaying the skull like scalp hunters.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-10/25/05.shtml
"These pictures revolt and mystify me," Jung told the popular daily Bild, which splashed the photographs on its front page, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The minister threatened to dismiss the soldiers in question and said they were likely to face not only a military probe but criminal proceedings.
"People who behave like this have no place in the Bundeswehr (the Armed Forces)," he told reporters.
The photographs show four German soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) displaying the skull like scalp hunters.
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-10/25/05.shtml