U.S. to Probe Treatment of Dead Taliban Fighters

U.S. to Probe Treatment of Dead Taliban Fighters: "Australian television aired video yesterday showing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan allegedly burning two dead Taliban fighters and using the charred bodies in an attempt to taunt other enemy forces in the area.

According to an Australian photojournalist who reportedly witnessed the event, the Taliban bodies were intentionally laid out on the ground to face Mecca, part of what the broadcast described as a deliberate desecration of Muslim beliefs. Two U.S. soldiers, said to be specialists in psychological operations, were pictured reciting propaganda messages aimed at Taliban fighters in surrounding mountains, calling them too 'cowardly' to retrieve the bodies."