Alleged body desecrations by U.S. outrage Muslim clerics

Friday, October 21, 2005

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Islamic clerics expressed outrage Thursday at television footage that purportedly shows U.S. soldiers burning the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters to taunt other militants and warned of a possible violent anti-American backlash.

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