What the hell!!

[KhyberKhan]

Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.

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.


In one of the most serious accusations of war crimes to emerge from the Afghan conflict, the killings are alleged to have been carried out by members of a Stryker infantry brigade based in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan.


According to investigators and legal documents, discussion of killing Afghan civilians began after the arrival of Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs at forward operating base Ramrod last November. Other soldiers told the army's criminal investigation command that Gibbs boasted of the things he got away with while serving in Iraq and said how easy it would be to "toss a grenade at someone and kill them".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...ilians-fingers

[BLS_1919v2.0]

ye I just read about it. Da zulm hadh dae. They should be tried and given the harshest of punishment...da Afghanano/pashtano weena wortha domra arzaana khkaaree

[Admin Khan]

Yaara, bas no sa owayama.

[Toramana]

BLS, I think it is high time Pashtuns to both sides unite and aske US to leave them alone. Under the UN arrangement involving powers like China, Russia, Europe, etc. US forces would leave Pashtun areas and Pashtun leadership through international involvement would give the assurance that their areas will not be used against US or any other country. Under such international involvement, it will also be made sure that all non-Pashtun jehadis leave Pashtun land and carry on with their mission in their respective countries if they want to.

It is time Pashtuns get united and assert themselves. Otherwise, the desctruction going on since 1980 would go on.

[kakargirl]

salam khyberkhan , wror this happened a few months ago , it was really hard to take in, our familys back home were very angered about these crimes ,the thread was made on here but very few posted on it, some of the crimes that have taken place in kandahar and helmand are absolutly disgusting, it makes one sick, it makes you curse nato and usa, may allah swt give us justice and protect our people from these satans.

[BLS_1919v2.0]

As I told you all the other day, I don't approve of the military solution NATO has been going forward. I think we need reconciliation before and then tell them all to kindly go their way. The major issue though is Pakistan, they are just as problematic (I would say more)

[Toramana]

The problem is, they have targetted virtually every Pashtun home in Afghanistan and every single Pashtun out there. The point is, is there any limit or end to this war on terror? They used our land for their war for world domination during 1980s (not to mention the Cold War era when both Britian and US used our area as a strategic outpost of their global empire) of which we exclusively paid the cost.

But it is also a fact that they and many other powers would not leave Pashtuns alone until this excuse of Pashtun land turning into a terror-heaven is done something about. And for that I think Pashtun political forces will have to take the initiative by asking UN and other powers for a mediation and resolution of the issues.

[kakargirl]

The problem is, they have targetted virtually every Pashtun home in Afghanistan and every single Pashtun out there. The point is, is there any limit or end to this war on terror? They used our land for their war for world domination during 1980s (not to mention the Cold War era when both Britian and US used our area as a strategic outpost of their global empire) of which we exclusively paid the cost.

But it is also a fact that they and many other powers would not leave Pashtuns alone until this excuse of Pashtun land turning into a terror-heaven is done something about. And for that I think Pashtun political forces will have to take the initiative by asking UN and other powers for a mediation and resolution of the issues.

wror for them every afghan pashtun in pashtun areas are taliban every single one thats kids included

[Wrayun]

Photos show US soldiers in Afghanistan posing with dead civilians



A US soldier poses with the corpse of an Afghan boy – one of three photographs published by German magazine Der Spiegel. Photograph: AP
The face of Jeremy Morlock, a young US soldier, grins at the camera, his hand holding up the head of the dead and bloodied youth he and his colleagues have just killed in an act military prosecutors say was premeditated murder.

Moments before the picture was taken in January last year, the unsuspecting victim had been waved over by a group of US soldiers who had driven to his village in Kandahar province in one of their armoured Stryker tanks.

According to testimony collected by Der Spiegel magazine the boy had, as a matter of routine, lifted up his shirt to reveal that he was not hiding a suicide bomb vest.

That was the moment Morlock, according to a pre-arranged plan, threw a grenade at the boy that exploded while other members of the rogue group who called themselves the "kill team" opened fire.

They would later tell military investigators that the boy, a farmer's son, had threatened them with the grenade.

The pictures include a similar photograph of a different soldier posing with the same victim and a photograph of two other civilians killed by the unit.

There was no sign on Monday of the anticipated public outrage. But with Afghanistan on holiday for the Persian new year celebrations, and media outlets initially unable to get hold of the images, anger may yet build.

The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, recently confided to officials that he feared it might trigger the same kind of scandal as that at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, where images of prisoners being abused by US soldiers sparked anti-American protests.

For weeks the US government has been working to pre-empt any outrage, with top officials, including the US vice president Joe Biden, in talks with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president.

Despite being a setback in the propaganda war between the western coalition and its insurgent enemies, Nato will be relieved that for the time being only a tiny sample of a total collection of roughly 4,000 images and video clips have found their way into the public domain.

The publication of the photos will also mark the ultimate disgrace of the group of young US soldiers, who are currently facing military justice for killing innocent civilians for sport and mutilating their bodies by cutting off fingers and ripping out teeth to keep as trophies.

Morlock has turned on his former colleagues, agreeing to testify against them in return for a reduced jail sentence. Some of the activities of the group are already public, with 12 men currently on trial in Seattle for their role in the killing of three civilians. Morlock has told investigators that Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs was the ringleader. In videotaped evidence, he has said Gibbs would pick out a possible target with a comment such as: "You guys wanna wax this guy or what?"

Gibbs, if found guilty, could receive a life sentence.

Hans-Ulrich Stoldt, a spokesman for Der Spiegel, said the magazine had other, more graphic photos.

"We published three but not others, and we even pixilated those we did print so that the victims could not be identified," Stoldt said. "We needed to document [the accusations] in some form, and were as restrained as possible."

Photos show US soldiers in Afghanistan posing with dead civilians | World news | The Guardian

[sahil112]

****ing disgusting!!! death to these US soldiers!!!