Then There's These US Soldiers Killing Afghan Civilians...
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 9:51 am
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America's "finest"?
Thought the anti-war contingent here would let this slip by, eh, Conks?
Uh-uh.
A U.S. soldier's chilling description of killing Afghan civilians for fun was screened on Monday in front of a war crimes hearing investigating his case.
Cpl. Jeremy Morlock, 22, is one of five soldiers who stands accused of being part of a secret "kill team" in his Stryker brigade unit, murdering innocent Afghans and collecting their body parts as souvenirs.
Videotapes of his interviews with Army investigators surfaced on Monday, in which Morlock details how he and fellow soldiers Calvin Gibbs and Adam Winfield mercilessly targeted civilians.
In one clip, Morlock describes how they forced an innocent man to obey their commands and stand still while they killed him with a grenade.
"We had this guy by the compound, and so Gibbs, you know, walked him out and set him in place, like 'Hey, stand here,'" Morlock says on the tape, telling the invesigator they had the man stay "where Gibbs could get behind cover after the grenade went off."
"He pulled out one of his grenades...popped it...throws the grenade and then tells me and Winfield, alright dude, wax this guy," Morlock says. "Kill this guy, kill this guy."
The civilian was fully cooperative and unarmed, Morlock told the Army. "He wasn't a threat."
Thoughts, people? Time to get out of the Middle East??
America's "finest"?
Thought the anti-war contingent here would let this slip by, eh, Conks?
Uh-uh.
A U.S. soldier's chilling description of killing Afghan civilians for fun was screened on Monday in front of a war crimes hearing investigating his case.
Cpl. Jeremy Morlock, 22, is one of five soldiers who stands accused of being part of a secret "kill team" in his Stryker brigade unit, murdering innocent Afghans and collecting their body parts as souvenirs.
Videotapes of his interviews with Army investigators surfaced on Monday, in which Morlock details how he and fellow soldiers Calvin Gibbs and Adam Winfield mercilessly targeted civilians.
In one clip, Morlock describes how they forced an innocent man to obey their commands and stand still while they killed him with a grenade.
"We had this guy by the compound, and so Gibbs, you know, walked him out and set him in place, like 'Hey, stand here,'" Morlock says on the tape, telling the invesigator they had the man stay "where Gibbs could get behind cover after the grenade went off."
"He pulled out one of his grenades...popped it...throws the grenade and then tells me and Winfield, alright dude, wax this guy," Morlock says. "Kill this guy, kill this guy."
The civilian was fully cooperative and unarmed, Morlock told the Army. "He wasn't a threat."
Thoughts, people? Time to get out of the Middle East??
