Video of Urinating Marines Could Be a Defining Image of Afghanistan

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By Yochi J. Dreazen, National Journal

The Pentagon opened a formal probe into a video showing Marines in Afghanistan urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters, but the move may not be enough to prevent the footage from becoming one of the defining images of the long and deeply unpopular Afghan War. The probe formally unveiled by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday came less than a day after the video began widely circulating over the Internet.
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Posted: Fri, 01/13/2012 - 11:27am