Tuesday, March 29, 2011

More Details And Photos Published From U.S. 'Kill Team' In Afghanistan

Dead: Afghans are tied to a post in one of the many images published by Rolling Stone from the 'Kill Team'

'Death Squad': Full Horror Emerges Of How Rogue U.S. Brigade Murdered And Mutilated Innocent Afghan Civilians - And Kept Their Body Parts As Trophies -- The Daily Mail

* Rolling Stone reveals how U.S. troops murdered Afghan civilians
* Soldiers cut off 15-year-old boy's finger and kept it as trophy
* Video captures U.S. troops cheering as airstrike kills two Afghan civilians
* New pictures show dead Afghan man's head on a stick
* Soldier stabbed the body of a dead Afghan civilian
* Military tried to pull pictures out of circulation to avoid another Abu Ghraib
* Army says photos are 'in striking contrast' to its standards and values

The Pentagon tonight apologised after shocking new details emerged of how American soldiers formed a 'death squad' to randomly murder Afghan civilians and mutilate their corpses.

An investigation by Rolling Stone magazine details how senior officers failed to stop troops killing Afghans and keeping their body parts as trophies.

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More News On The U.S. 'Kill Team' In Afghanistan

The Kill Team -- Rolling Stone

US apologizes for more Afghan 'kill team' photos -- AFP
Pentagon Apologizes, Again, After New Pictures Of 'Kill Team' Are Published -- NPR
U.S. Army condemns grisly photos of Afghan killings -- CTV News
Pentagon apologizes again for photos of Afghans slain by U.S. soldiers -- USA Today
Pentagon Reacts to Alleged Afghanistan "Kill Teams" -- FOX News
New photos of atrocities by soldiers in Afghanistan -- CBS News
U.S. soldiers' 'kill team' killed Afghanis, used body parts in poker games: report -- New York Daily News
Pentagon promises "truth" as magazine publishes photos of soldiers murdering Afghan civilians -- Xinhuanet
Army begins investigation, court martial after Rolling Stone article -- The Hill
Rolling Stone’s “Kill Team” Pictures -- Samantha Henig, New Yorker
Rolling Stone's Grisly "Kill Team" Photos: The Tip of the Iceberg? -- Adam Sorensen, Time
Who Is Responsible for the Afghan “Kill Teams?” -- Jazz Shaw, Hot Air
How common are casualty photos like ones gathered by Stryker "kill team?" -- Adam Ashton, News Tribune

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