Wed 23 Mar, 2011
Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for possible riots and public fury triggered by the publication of “trophy” photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of defenceless Afghan civilians they killed.
Senior officials at Nato’s International Security Assistance Force in Kabul have compared the pictures published by the German news weekly Der Spiegel to the images of US soldiers abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib in Iraq which sparked waves of anti-US protests around the world.
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In one incident in May last year, the article says, during a patrol, the team apprehended a mullah who was standing by the road and took him into a ditch where they made him kneel down.
The group’s leader, Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, then allegedly threw a grenade at the man while an order was given for him to be shot.
Afterwards, Gibbs is described cutting off one of the man’s little fingers and removing a tooth.
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In a statement, the army said it apologised for the distress caused by photographs “depicting actions repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States”.
Holy fucking shit. These assholes tossed a grenade at an unarmed man, shot him in the head, cut off a finger, ripped out a tooth and the only thing the army can say is “Sorry”?
Why aren’t these assholes being held at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia? Why aren’t they being held as a “maximum custody detainee” and held under a “Prevention of Injury” assignment? Why aren’t they being held in a 6 x 12 foot cell with no windows, a bed with no sheets and no pillow?
Oh that’s right, these guys only killed brown people for sport. They didn’t allegedly pass classified information to Wikileaks that embarrassed the government.
Tags: Afghanistan, Hey It's Okay These Were Brown People, Torture, War on Terror
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