Kabul, January 27: An Afghan man, outraged over a recent video showing American Marines urinating on the bodies of Taliban militants, has killed two US troops in southwest Afghanistan.
The man attacked the US soldiers with a knife as they were walking in a bazaar in Sangin, a town in Helmand province, the Taliban said in a statement on Thursday.
Attacks by Afghan nationals on foreign troops occupying their country have been on the rise recently.
Last week, an Afghan soldier shot dead four French troops in the Tagab district of Kapisa province, located some 800 kilometers northeast of the capital Kabul. He later confessed that he had been strongly motivated to kill the foreigners after watching an offensive video showing the marines making lewd jokes, while urinating on the dead bodies of Afghans.
Earlier this month, a video footage was posted on the net showing four members of the US Marine Corps in camouflage uniforms desecrating the dead bodies.
The US Marine Corps has said it would investigate the video, calling the actions of the troops “disgusting.”
The desecration of the corpses has drawn the anger of the Muslims in the United States. A US-based Muslim civil rights group condemned the heinous incident in a letter to US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
“Any guilty parties must be punished to the full extent allowed by the Uniform Code of Military Justice and by relevant American laws,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations wrote in a letter following the release of the footage on January 11.
——Agencies