Britain’s Ministry of Defence has launched an investigation into photos that emerged, showing at least one British soldier with a dead Taliban fighter.
Two members of the RAF have already been withdrawn from frontline duties.
The pictures, taken in the aftermath of a Taliban attack on Camp Bastion in 2012, which left two US marines dead and 6 RAF Harrier Jets destroyed.
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