Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders when he reported other abuses, including members of the unit smoking hashish stolen from civilians.
US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies' | World news | The Guardian
If true, I hope they fry... the are a disgrace to the US military and the US as a whole.
It is from The Guardian though, so the odds are pretty good that it isn't.If this is true I hope for the worst punishment for these men.
US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies' | World news | The Guardian
If true, I hope they fry... the are a disgrace to the US military and the US as a whole.
That's just sick, but those are still merely accusations and they should be regarded to as such.
Is there any other source for this except of the Guardian?
The finger part is newFive is a minuscule fraction of the 4,000 members of the 5th Stryker Brigade, which came home this summer after a year’s deployment in Afghanistan. Atrocities happen in every war, but today’s professional all-volunteer American Army today may be as scrupulous a combat force as this nation has ever fielded.
There’s also the fact that the probe of the suspicious deaths of three Afghan civilians earlier this year was initiated by the brigade itself against several of its own. In the past – after Vietnam’s My Lai massacre, for example – investigations often happened despite the unit’s commanders, not because of them.
It is from The Guardian though, so the odds are pretty good that it isn't.
But I thought we went to those countries to do good :roll:
That's just sick, but those are still merely accusations and they should be regarded to as such.
Is there any other source for this except of the Guardian?
Now, see, that's the problem. Those who judge a whole mission, a whole armed services on the actions of a few bad apples, make the rest of us nutz.
Now, see, that's the problem. Those who judge a whole mission, a whole armed services on the actions of a few bad apples, make the rest of us nutz.
But I thought we went to those countries to do good :roll:
I was never "for" the mission to begin with, I never thought we did any good in Iraq and Afghanistan and I held that view before I read about this and I will continue to hold long after this case if true.
The Associated Press: Soldier's father: Army was warned of murder plotThe father of a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan says he tried nearly a half dozen times to pass an urgent message from his son to the Army: Troops in his unit had murdered an Afghan civilian, planned more killings and threatened him to keep quiet about it.
By the time officials arrested suspects months later, two more Afghans were dead.
And much to Christopher Winfield's horror, his son Adam was among the five Fort Lewis-based soldiers charged in the killings.
The elder Winfield told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that his son did not kill the unarmed man and would never have been in the situation if the Army had investigated the warnings he says he passed along to Fort Lewis.
I was never "for" the mission to begin with, I never thought we did any good in Iraq and Afghanistan and I held that view before I read about this and I will continue to hold long after this case if true.
US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies' | World news | The Guardian
If true, I hope they fry... the are a disgrace to the US military and the US as a whole.
One of the soldiers' parents are claiming they knew this was going on and tried several times to get the Army to do something about it:
The Associated Press: Soldier's father: Army was warned of murder plot
That soldier ****ed up, by not properly using his chain of command.
These men should be considered innocent until proven guilty. But IF proven guilty...should be hammered to the fullest extent of the law. The description of their behaviors is not something I cannot fathom because I have seen this type of behavior with civilian prisoners...but it is nonetheless unexcusable.
Read on down:That soldier ****ed up, by not properly using his chain of command.
If true, that is a major problem.Soldiers serving in a combat theater typically would report crimes up the chain of command, to military investigators or chaplains, to members of the Defense Department inspector general's office, or even to another unit if their own commanders are involved.
One soldier, Pfc. Justin A. Stoner, who reported hashish smoking in the unit, said he was beaten by several platoon members. Gibbs and Morlock then paid him a visit, with Gibbs rolling out on the floor a set of severed fingers, he told investigators.
Morlock told him that "if I don't want to end up like that guy ... shut the hell up."
Reading the article might help:I'd like to see the evidence where this kid or his parents tried to notify the army. sounds to me a lot like the kid got caught and now daddy is trying to cover his ass by claiming "we tried to tell them"
"I'm not sure what to do about something that happened out here but I need to be secretive about this," their son wrote them in a Facebook message. The couple gave the AP copies of the Facebook messages, Internet chats and their phone records.
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