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Robert Gates protests AP decision as ‘appalling’ - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26759.html):

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”