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http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC130117-0000076/US-Marine-pleads-guilty-to-urinating-on-Taliban-corpses
A United States Marine yesterday pleaded guilty to urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and then posing for photographs in a scene captured in a widely circulated video on the Internet and denounced by world leaders.
Staff Sergeant Edward W Deptola said he knew desecrating the corpses and posing for the "trophy photographs" was wrong, and he offered no excuse for the behaviour during his court martial at North Carolina's Camp Lejeune.
"I was in a position to stop it and I did not," said Deptola, a native of Southold, New York, and a married father of two.
Although the judge presiding at Deptola's trial recommended a stiffer sentence, the maximum penalty he will face under the terms of a pre-trial agreement is a reduction in rank to sergeant.
Deptola was among a group of Marines to face disciplinary action after the video, posted on YouTube and other websites in January last year, showed four US servicemen in camouflage combat uniforms urinating on several corpses.
One of them said, "Have a nice day, buddy", during the footage.
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