A report released on the weekend criticized a group of U.S. Marines in Afghanistan who went on a 12-kilometre-long shooting spree earlier this winter.

Gregg Mitchell of Editor and Publisher wrote about parts of the report that dealt with the U.S. military's decision to censor some AP journalists: (via truthout)

A freelance photographer working for The AP and a cameraman working for AP Television News said then a U.S. soldier deleted their photos and video showing a four-wheel drive vehicle in which three people were shot to death about 100 yards from the suicide bombing. The AP lodged a protest with the American military.

The military defended their action in a letter to the AP later, stating that images gathered by "untrained people" might "capture visual details that are not as they originally were." But the Afghan commission concluded that there were "not sufficient grounds to justify the substantial curtailment of the right to freedom of expression, especially as the loss of information caused by these actions was directly harmful to the successful undertaking of a genuinely impartial investigation."