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Pentagon chief Robert Gates has strongly condemned the decision of the Associated Press to publish the photograph of a mortally wounded Marine, reports The Washigton Post. The fact that not to publish the photograph, the agency asked Gates how he and the relatives of the deceased Marines, but the AP decided that the public should see this picture.

On the controversial photographs depicted the last moments of life, 21-year-old Lance Corporal U.S. Marine Corps, Joshua Bernard, served in Afghanistan. AP photographer managed to take pictures of Bernard, after his unit fired rocket-propelled grenades militants of the Taliban, the photograph shows that jolly was seriously wounded leg, and colleagues are trying to help him. Later, Bernard, died in a field hospital.

After the AP refused to listen to the arguments and requests of the Pentagon's father died, Robert Gates has accused journalists of "shameful" lack of compassion, as well as in violation of ethical norms. Representatives of the Associated Press with this assessment of its decision to disagree, and argue that the picture of the dying Marines tell readers about the courage and heroism of Marines. Chapter фотослужбы AP Santiago Lyon said that it "journalistic duty - to show war for what it is."