Kabul: A spokesman for the Afghan military says a soldier who turned on French troops and killed four of them was angry about a video purporting to show US Marines desecrating the bodies of Taliban insurgents.
Defence Ministry Gen Mohammad Zahir Azimi said today that the 21-year-old Afghan recruit had viewed the video that was widely distributed on YouTube and other video-sharing websites.
Azimi said it wasn`t clear if the video was the sole motivation for the attack last week that also wounded more than a dozen French troops at a base in eastern Afghanistan.
French investigators are travelling to Afghanistan to assist the investigation. Last week`s attack was latest of several by an Afghan soldier on international troops working with the national army.
PTI