U.S. troops charged with murdering civilians

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http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/10/u-s-troops-charged-with-murdering-civilians/?hpt=Sbin

If true I would ventrue to say this would do more for recruiting efforts than burning of the Koran.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

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Damn v-blogs... anything text-based?

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/0910/US-soldiers-charged-with-murdering-civilians-in-Afghanistan-war

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

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giggity giggity Google!i

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U.S. soldiers charged with murdering civilians, collecting their fingers in Afghanistan

Did a group of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan secretly form a "kill team," targeting civilians at random and collecting their body parts as souvenirs?
Army investigators are still sorting through the facts, but twelve soldiers have been charged in the 5th Stryker brigade in connection with the murders of three Afghan civilians, and members of their unit say one soldier in particular intimidated and threatened the others into committing horrific atrocities.

Five are accused of murdering three Afghan men in separate incidents while stationed in Kandahar this year, while seven others are charged with helping to cover up the killings, The Associated Press reports.

The troops say Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs instigated the violence when he arrived at their base last winter, bragging about how easy it would be to "toss a grenade at someone and kill them."
Gibbs, 25, allegedly created a "kill team" within their unit, roping in a handful of fellow soldiers including Jeremy Morlock, 22, and Andrew Holmes, 19.
The group is said to have deliberately killed three Afghan civilians over the next few months while on patrol, murdering one man by "throwing a fragmentary grenade at him and shooting him with a rifle."
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witty subliminal message
Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards.
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Thanks.

Seems odd that the kid told his parents but didn't go to CID or the MP's. Regardless, if proven guilty they all deserve a long stay at a place where they can make boulders into gravel by hand.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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Hope you're thinking of Sisyphus, because, if the allegations are true, the only thing they deserve is a state sponsored trip to hell.

witty subliminal message
Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards.
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Hope you're thinking of Sisyphus, because, if the allegations are true, the only thing they deserve is a state sponsored trip to hell.

darn it all , sisyphus reference rings a bell , but now i have to look it up to refresh my memory !

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Christopher Winfield, the father of Spc. Adam Winfield, told the Associated Press that he repeatedly warned the Army about the first killing after his son told him about it early this year.

"I'm not sure what to do about something that happened out here but I need to be secretive about this," [Winfield wrote his parents] in a Facebook message [on Jan. 15, the day of the first killing]. The couple gave the AP copies of the Facebook messages, Internet chats, and their phone records.

Cause God knows, if you put something on FB, chats or the Internet; it's gonna remain a secret.

Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.