http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-10-25T083458Z_01_L25926046_RTRUKOC_0_UK-GERMANY-AFGHAN-DESECRATION.xml&WTmodLoc=World-C1-Headline-9BERLIN (Reuters) - A newspaper published pictures on Wednesday of what it said were German soldiers in Afghanistan desecrating a skull in scenes Germany's defence minister condemned as disgusting.
The images, apparently taken more than three years ago, appear at a sensitive time for the German army which has been confronted with allegations its soldiers abused a Turkish man with German residency in Afghanistan before he was sent to the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. snip
Top-selling German daily Bild carried a photo on its front page of a soldier dressed in desert fatigues holding a human skull up to the camera under the headline: "Shock photos by German troops".
Inside the paper, photographs showed an unidentified soldier clutching the skull next to his exposed penis and the skull resting on the front wing of a light armoured vehicle. Another showed a group of soldiers posing with their jeep after securing the skull on the vehicle's towing winch like a bonnet mascot.
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