U.S. soldier describes 'murders' of three Afghan civilians

How many more of these stories are gonna come out? No wonder the Afghans want the Taliban back, I only hope that British troops are out before the rest of the stories come out so they won't face retaliatiry attacks from the Afghans. As this soldier was 'bullied' into taking part let's let him off with a smack on the backside, I'm sure the people they murdered were directly involved in the 9/11 attacks somehow :rolleyes:

'He pulled out a grenade, throws it... and tells me we have waxed this guy': U.S. soldier describes 'murders' of three Afghan civilians


A U.S. soldier has described to military investigators how his sergeant set up the killing of an Afghan civilian.

Corporal Jeremy Morlock, 22, from Alaska, is one of five soldiers from 5th Stryker Combat Brigade charged with pre-meditated murder by the U.S. Army.

In the incident, which has cast a shadow over American operations in Afghanistan, the group are alleged to have picked out three unarmed civilians to murder in cold blood.

The shocking case includes charges of widespread drug use as well as the collection of body parts and photos of the U.S. soldiers holding the Afghan bodies like hunters' trophies.

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'Waxed him': Jeremy Morlock is shown on the left being interrogated about three murders by U.S. troops in Afghanistan


Morlock's evidence paints Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs as the ringleader behind the attacks.

He is accused, along with Adam Winfield, Michael Wagnon II, Andrew Holmes and Morlock, with three murders, which took place between January and May of this year.

However, Morlock is claiming he was bullied into taking part.

In the video Morlock admits that he was fully co-operative when Sgt. Gibbs identified one Afghan man, who was unarmed, and proceeded to 'wax' him, or kill him.

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Heat of battle: Five U.S. troops have been charged with murdering three unarmed Afghans - and Morlock admits that one was killed using a grenade


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Quizzed: The 22-year-old corporal is asked whether he co-operated with his sergeant, Calvin Gibbs's commands, and whether the victim was unarmed


'We identified the guy,' he begins, 'And Gibbs said, "You want to wax this guy, or what?"

'He set it up - he grabbed the dude and set the whole scenario up.

'We had this guy by his compound and Gibbs grabbed him out and set him in place.

'He was next to a wall - where Gibbs could get behind to cover after a grenade went off, and he placed me [the other way] so I could have clean-line sight for him.

'Gibbs sent in a couple of people to pull some front side security.'

Morlock continues: '[Gibbs] pulled out one of his grenades, and popped it, threw the grenade and then he tells me that we have waxed this guy; killed the guy.'

The case could become the grimmest investigation of alleged atrocities by U.S. military personnel during almost nine years of war in Afghanistan.

Reports of grisly photos of Afghan bodies being posed for photos by American troops could be among the more inflammatory revelations to emerge from the case, echoing worldwide outrage stirred by pictures of nude Iraqi prisoners of war taken by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

The troops from the 5th Stryker Brigade based in Washington state deployed to Kandahar province a year ago, and the murders occurred between January and March, according to charges by army prosecutors made public this month.

Morlock was the first of five soldiers initially charged in June with the murders. Seven others have been charged since then with various other crimes stemming from the investigation, including conspiracy to cover up the slayings.

Four of the soldiers have been charged with keeping body parts, including finger bones, a skull, leg bones and a human tooth.

Pentagon officials, while stressing that the charges have yet to be proven, acknowledged that the nature of the allegations were damaging to America's image abroad, and that of the U.S. military in particular.

Morlock is the first to be brought before a military court for a so-called Article 32 hearing, in which prosecutors and defense lawyers present evidence to an investigating officer assigned to determine whether the defendant should be formally tried in a court-martial.

The hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington, is expected to last a day, with the investigating officer taking up to several weeks to decide whether a court-martial is warranted.

Watch the horrifying video confession here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ians-describes-sergeant-killed-man-video.html
 

emceeemcee

Banned
And a congressional candidate who is probably a war criminal-

Pantano, who describes himself as a "born-again Christian and a born-again Southerner," grew up in Manhattan, where he went to a fancy private high school on scholarship and then on to the Marines during the first Gulf War. When he got back, he went to NYU and worked as a trader at Goldman Sachs for a few years before becoming a consultant. He was in the city on Sept. 11, and that's when he decided to rejoin the Marines. He was sent to Iraq.

It was there that, in a disputed April 2004 incident south of Baghdad, Pantano killed two unarmed Iraqi prisoners, Hamaady Kareem and Tahah Ahmead Hanjil. The incident occurred after the two men had been arrested as suspected insurgents and Pantano directed them to search their own car. According to Pantano's version of events, the men moved toward him in a threatening way and he opened fire in self-defense, shooting up to 60 rounds and killing both of them. He then put a sign next to the bodies with a Marine slogan: "No better friend, no worse enemy." Pantano told New York magazine: "I believed that by firing the number of rounds that I did, I was sending a message" to other potential insurgents.

In 2005, Pantano was formally accused of premeditated murder, partly on the strength of testimony of other Marines present during the incident who believed it was not justified. But after a series of hearings, the military brass agreed with Pantano's version of events and he was cleared of the murder charges.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/...s/war_room/2010/09/27/ilario_pantano_congress
 
This is the New Millenium version of the movie Apocalypse Now
 

vodkazvictim

Why save the world, when you can rule it?
This might happen less frequently if the soldiers felt like the people back home cared.
I'm not excusing them, I'm just saying; these guys probably joined up to defend their country.
Instead they got sent into the middle of nowhere on false pretences, low pay and were likely under-equipped because the guys at the top don't care and the guy on the street doesn't care either because for them it's not a war and because they know they shouldn't have gone there in the first place.
 

emceeemcee

Banned
The military and their media accomplices deserve most lot of the blame for that.

If we'd been given a more realistic picture of what is going on over there, including all the gory videos of civilians getting wacked and bloodied soldiers being carted around on stretchers and dying on operating tables, then people may have cared a bit more.

Obviously that kind of stuff is bad for maintaining support for a war so we got the sanitized image instead.
 
The military and their media accomplices deserve most lot of the blame for that.

If we'd been given a more realistic picture of what is going on over there, including all the gory videos of civilians getting wacked and bloodied soldiers being carted around on stretchers and dying on operating tables, then people may have cared a bit more.

Obviously that kind of stuff is bad for maintaining support for a war so we got the sanitized image instead.

During the Vietnam war, the media wasn't censored just as Bush censored the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
While this is quite disturbing (no, really), I can't help but think that this is going to have the loonies on the left (yes, they do exist) start thinking that every US soldier is a child killer the same way the right's whackjobs think that every muslim wants to kill Americans. Seriously, they are being held accountable for what they did, and they are going pay for it. It's not like this came out and all five aren't being charged.
 

emceeemcee

Banned
While this is quite disturbing (no, really), I can't help but think that this is going to have the loonies on the left (yes, they do exist) start thinking that every US soldier is a child killer the same way the right's whackjobs think that every muslim wants to kill Americans. Seriously, they are being held accountable for what they did, and they are going pay for it. It's not like this came out and all five aren't being charged.

The thing is, there are plenty of incidents that have gone uncharged or swept under the rug.


With this incident people start to wonder how many more happened and when totally unreported. There might be accountability in the military, but how much? Especially when they are in a fight for public opinion and will do just about anything to limit the damage...
 
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