Petraeus and other top military officials pushed to waive the autopsy that would have determined the man’s cause of death, in order to forestall protests by upset Afghans. But, emails show that a troubling series of photos emerged that showed the man’s bruised and bloody corpse, the mouth bandaged shut, which prompted another general to second-guess the decision to not conduct an autopsy that would have investigated whether the man had suffered abuse in US custody.
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