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    Angry debate in US as agency releases picture of dying marine in Afghanistan.

    It is a graphic image of the harsh realities of war: the fatally wounded young marine lying crumpled in the mud, his vulnerable face turned to the camera. And it is one the US defence secretary would rather you did not see.

    Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard, pictured being tended by comrades in southern Afghanistan, died of his injuries soon after. Now the release of this record of the 21-year-old"s last moments has divided America, prompting furious debate over the sanitisation of war at a critical time for the military offensive.

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