US military apologizes for 'highly offensive' leaflets it distributed in Afghanistan
by By Sultan Faizy and Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times
Sep 06, 2017
2 minutes
KABUL_The U.S. military in Afghanistan apologized Wednesday for distributing leaflets featuring an image "highly offensive" to Muslims.
The leaflets dropped Tuesday night over parts of Parwan showed the shahada_ the Muslim profession of faith - printed on the image of a dog, an animal viewed by many Muslims as unclean.
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