U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers

The controversial photographs appeared on the LA Times website on Wednesday, sparking condemnation from officials. Nato forces in Afghanistan are braced for a violent backlash after pictures emerged of U. In one photograph, grinning soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division are shown holding up the severed legs of a suicide bomber whose remains they were sent to identify. Others taken several months later show paratroopers in the same platoon posing with the bodies of three insurgents who had accidently blown themselves up with a roadside bomb. The photos, taken in in the Taliban stronghold of Zabul province, were among 18 passed to the Los Angeles Times by a soldier.