Marines Urinating On Taliban: All Four Identified

Ref:  Video: U.S. Marines caught urinating on dead Taliban fighters

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service(NCIS) has identified all four of the Marines appearing in the video and interviewed at least two of them. At the time they were filmed urinating on the bodies, the four were members of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, which fought in the southern Afghan province of Helmand for seven months before returning to their home base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., last September.

No one has yet been charged in the case, which triggered widespread outrage with the appearance Wednesday on YouTube of a brief video that appears to show four Marines in full combat gear urinating on the bodies of three dead men lying on the ground.

"These actions are in direct opposition to everything the military stands for," Marine Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan said after viewing the video. "Such acts in no way reflect the high moral standards and values we expect of our armed forces on a daily basis."

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and military leaders have promised an exhaustive investigation and sought to contain the damage at home and abroad.

He said it was important for the U.S. to move quickly to "send a clear signal to the world that the U.S. will not tolerate this kind of behavior and that is not what the U.S. is all about."

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