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US military try to ban pictures of dead in Afghanistan

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Published 16 October, 2009, 03:06

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US military commanders are worried about the affects of showing pictures of dead soldiers and they want them banned in order to control the message coming from war zone, claims Michael Macleod-Ball from ACLU.

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