While senior U.S. officials from President Barack Obama on down expressed outrage and regret, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta noted at a news conference, This is war. The publication of the photos Wednesday - one of which shows U.S. soldiers with Afghan police gathered around the mutilated legs of a suicide bomber - followed the surfacing of a video in January that showed Marines urinating on corpses in Afghanistan. The first to cause a furor: military guards at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were shown torturing inmates, leading one on a leash and collar in one photo, and being piled, nude, on top of each other in other photos that surfaced in 2004. The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan C. Crocker, said, "The actions were morally repugnant, dishonor the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers and civilians who have served with distinction in Afghanistan, and do not represent the core values of the United States or our military."
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