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The original caption chose to highlight the other figure in this image, a US marine facing away from the corpse in the foreground.

Not all marines facing criminal charges receive the same amount of attention, or cash donations.

Italy said Thursday that it would return to India two marines facing murder charges in the shooting deaths of two Indian fishermen.

The developments in the Finmeccanica case come at a time when New Delhi and Rome are entangled in a diplomatic dispute after Italy's refusal this week to return two Italian marines facing trial in India for the killing of two fishermen off the southwest Indian coast last year.

The statement said the decision to pardon Col Romano was inspired by the same principle that Italy hoped to see used in the case of two Italian marines facing murder charges in India over the shooting of two fishermen.

Two of the eight marines face charges of negligent homicide, while others face lesser charges, Marine officials said.

The marines face a daunting task.

In his decision to dismiss charges, Lt. Gen. James Mattis, the commanding general with jurisdiction in the case, said he was sympathetic to the challenges marines faced in Iraq.

That same Sunday, marines faced heavy fighting that left about a dozen dead in combat, and perhaps more killed by fire.

Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, the two marines, face murder charges in the February 2012 shooting of two Indian fishermen who were on a fishing boat in the Arabian Sea, off the southern Indian coast.

In Nasiriya, about 230 miles south of Baghdad, marines faced another day of gun battles with irregular forces mounted in armored personnel carriers with rocket launchers and antiaircraft systems.