NO TRIAL: Charges against Specialist Michael Wagnon II have been dropped. It was one of the most serious war-crimes cases to emerge from the Afghanistan war. ReutersUS Military Drops 'Kill Team' Charges Against Soldier -- The Guardian
Michael Wagnon testified that he only shot his gun in defence during Afghan deployment in which civilians were killed for sport.
The US military has dropped all charges against the fifth soldier it had accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport during a 2010 deployment.
Specialist Michael Wagnon, 31, had been charged with the unlawful killing of one Afghan civilian in February 2010. He was expected to go on trial in March.
Four other soldiers from a Lewis-McChord Stryker brigade have been jailed in connection with the killings of three unarmed men during patrols in Kandahar province.
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