The Qurans inadvertently burned by U.S. troops were previously defaced with extremist messages, military investigators have concluded. The investigators also found that five soldiers were involved in the burnings that set off protests in Afghanistan that left 30 dead and lead to the deaths of six U.S. soldiers, The Washington Post reported.
Investigators appointed by Marine Gen. John Allen, the commanding officer in Afghanistan, determined that soldiers removed the Qurans from a prison at the Bagram Air Base after they were found to contain extremist messages, and then placed them in an office. The books were mistaken for trash and taken to a landfill where they were burned, according to the Post.
Officials tell the Post the five soldiers will face reprimands but added their names will be kept secret. “For the soldiers, it will be serious — they could lose rank. But you’re not going to see the kind of public trial that some here seem to want,” a military official in Afghanistan told the Post.
Another official added the soldiers were careless “but there was no ill will.” The findings are unlikely to satisfy Afghan leaders who have demanded harsh treatment for the soldiers.
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and there goes the career of 5 Marines. Im sure these guys are on their 2nd to 5th over there and now they are going to come home and be treated like criminals by our government.Im so sick of seeing politicians in Washington that very few ever had the balls to join the military buy the way sit behind their deskc and call for punishment on something they have no idea what is going on. Get you fat ass up and go over and send a week with a Marine battalion over there on patrol and shit. These guys will probably be given an administrative discharge for this when they accept it over being drug into a full blow court martial. For doing what? they burn our fucking flag every day there. It is shit like this that scares the hell out of me as a veteran, if we ever get involved with a full-scale war we as a country are so soft that we will not do the things that will be required to be done to win. I mean seriously we need to pop the bottle out of our mouths and toughen the hell up. Semper Fi
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