Killing civilians, posing corpses and burning copies of holy Quran… all these crimes committed by US occupation troops in the latest months.

US Marines urinating on corpses

Killing civilians, posing corpses and burning copies of holy Quran… all these crimes committed by US occupation troops in the latest months.

These acts have sparked mass demonstration across the country, as they fueled anti-US anger and a desire in NATO countries to get out of an unpopular war.

Every month this year, a fresh scandal has rocked the alliance between the US and the government of President Hamid Karzai.
In January, a video showed US Marines urinating on militants’ corpses.
In February US soldiers burned copies of the holy book in Islam.
In March a US occupation soldier shot dead and burned the bodies of 17 civilians in their homes.

Now the Los Angeles Times has published pictures, taken in 2010, showing soldiers posing with militants’ bodies, one with a dead man's hand draped on his shoulder.

"In the West there was this strong idea that of course the troops came to fight terrorism but also came to help and to rebuild the country," Agence France Press quoted Martine van Bijlert of the Afghan Analysts' Network.
"Incidents like this will feed into feelings at home of 'What are we doing here?'," she said.

For the Afghans, "it does confirm how people increasingly feel about the international and US troops -- that 'they don't really care about us, that they don't treat us with respect."

"I think it is becoming increasingly clear, for the US soldiers in particular who've been through so many tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, that they are extremely worn down and that the morale internally is not so fantastic”, the analyst added.

Incidents such as the massacre, the Koran burning and the desecration of bodies raised questions about US President Barack Obama's "initial claims that this was the just war, this was the necessary war", Bijler said.