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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US military apologized again Monday after Rolling Stone published more photos and videos of members of an alleged rogue army unit "kill team" accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport.
A week after one soldier was jailed after striking a plea bargain to testify against the alleged ringleader, the weekly magazine published a series of graphic images and a long story including extensive detail of the allegations.
"The photos published by Rolling Stone are disturbing and in striking contrast to the standards and values of the United States Army," said a Pentagon statement.
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Sickening, sad and disgusting... The question we need to ask is what society fostered these individuals and what can we do to stop it? The devaluing of the worth of a human life has fallen far faster than the value of a dollar in my lifetime and as we rush headlong into becoming members of a "global society" another question we need to ask is how low will that value go? What about the value of our individual freedoms as they are weighed against the "greater good" of the entire world?
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