US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies'

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US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies'Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/09/us-soldiers-afghan-civilians-fingers

[azurnoir]

1. similiar things happened in Vietnam

there are always psychopaths in the bunch and some that may not act on it until they're in a situation where they feel they can with impunity one more reason we need to get out of Afghanistan

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Yeah, Morlock, another idiot from Wasilla.

A related article in this morning's Anchorage Daily News: http://www.adn.com/2010/09/09/1446508/father-says-he-warned-army-of.html

SEATTLE -- The 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 -- a soldier from Wasilla among them -- two more Afghans were dead.

And much to Christopher Winfield's horror, his son Adam was also one of 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.



Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/09/09/1446508/father-says-he-warned-army-of.html#ixzz0z9W0saOh