US barbarism exposed in Afghanistan, US Army sergeant 'kept Afghan body parts'

[digitalzygot]

SEATTLE - New documents released by the Army say a staff sergeant charged in a conspiracy to murder civilians kept Afghan body parts and threatened subordinates. Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs is the most senior of five Fort Lewis-based Stryker soldiers charged in the deaths of three Afghan civilians earlier this year.

His lawyer says he denies being part of any conspiracy and that the deaths were all "appropriate engagements." In charging papers released Wednesday, prosecutors say Gibbs and others in his platoon also beat up a soldier who reported drug use in the unit, said they'd kill him if he kept talking about it and threatened him by showing him fingers that had been cut from an Afghan corpse.

 

[aaleraza]

condemning american barbarism make no difference, alongwith condemning please try to unite on common belief, because this is the only way to stand up against these power. but I sont know when our hakim realize this point.

 

[sahiL]

our hakimz will realize it when we(the people)will realize it bru

 

[Humble Pakistani]

SEATTLE - New documents released by the Army say a staff sergeant charged in a conspiracy to murder civilians kept Afghan body parts and threatened subordinates. Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs is the most senior of five Fort Lewis-based Stryker soldiers charged in the deaths of three Afghan civilians earlier this year.

His lawyer says he denies being part of any conspiracy and that the deaths were all "appropriate engagements." In charging papers released Wednesday, prosecutors say Gibbs and others in his platoon also beat up a soldier who reported drug use in the unit, said they'd kill him if he kept talking about it and threatened him by showing him fingers that had been cut from an Afghan corpse.

You cannot condem a whole nation for just a few sick individuals. They are part of every society. These folks will be dealt with apropriate manner as the law requires!

 

[digitalzygot]

I think whole of the nation is sick with their anti islamic views, war mentality, quran burning and list goes on and on.....

 

[Humble Pakistani]

I think whole of the nation is sick with their anti islamic views, war mentality, quran burning and list goes on and on.....

I will totally disagree... If there is one Voice saying, "Burn Quran" There are 100 that are opposing it. If there is one voice against a Islamic center in Manhattan NY, there are 4 for it. Anti-Islamic views are the work of few individuals... The same can be said about Pakistan where the TTP have been creating havoc with suicide bombings because the majority opposes their views! Do not blame a nation just because few are rotten.

 

[Night_Hawk]

I will totally disagree... If there is one Voice saying, "Burn Quran" There are 100 that are opposing it. If there is one voice against a Islamic center in Manhattan NY, there are 4 for it. Anti-Islamic views are the work of few individuals... The same can be said about Pakistan where the TTP have been creating havoc with suicide bombings because the majority opposes their views! Do not blame a nation just because few are rotten.

Very well said Humble Pakistani I agree with you.

 

[sarbakaf]

US Soldiers keeping Afghan Civilan Body Parts as Trophies - Crusaders of Animals ?

9 September 2010 Last updated at 20:33

US troops 'murdered Afghan civilians and kept body parts'

Cpl Morlock (l) and Specialist Wagnon (r) and 10 other infantrymen have been charged



A group of US soldiers murdered a number of Afghan civilians and took body parts as trophies, documents released by military officials allege.
The charging sheets relate to allegations that five US soldiers were involved in the murders of civilians in January, February and May of this year.
A further seven servicemen are accused of a conspiracy to cover up the crimes.
Lawyers for some of the accused have denied the accusations, while the army has yet to begin a review of the cases.
'Appropriate engagements'
In charge sheets obtained from the US Army, Staff Sgt Calvin Gibbs, Cpl Jeremy Morlock, Pte First Class Andrew Holmes, Specialist Michael Wagnon and Specialist Adam Winfield are accused of murdering male Afghan civilians with grenades and firearms.
Other soldiers were accused of stabbing an Afghan corpse, taking or possessing photographs of casualties and beating other men in an effort to keep them from talking to investigators.
The soldiers were attached to the Army's Fifth Stryker brigade, which deployed to Afghanistan last year and has seen heavy fighting around Kandahar. They were based in Washington state.
Army spokeswoman Major Kathleen Turner told the BBC the cases were in a preliminary phase of investigation and military prosecutors had yet to decide whether to move ahead with proceedings.
The BBC's Kevin Connolly in Washington says the legal process is likely to be long and complex.
Among other charges, military prosecutors say Staff Sgt Gibbs possessed finger bones, leg bones and a tooth taken from Afghan corpses, and showed fingers to another soldier and threatened to kill him if he reported drug use to commanding officers.
Staff Sgt Gibbs' lawyer Phillip Stackhouse told the Associated Press news agency his client said the shootings were "appropriate engagements", and he denied any conspiracy to murder Afghans.
The case against the men is built largely around statements by Cpl Morlock, US media report.
But Cpl Morlock's lawyer told the Seattle Times his client's statements were made while he was suffering from concussion, was under the influence of prescription drugs, and was being evacuated.

 

[biomat]

This is Levy Rosenbaum (remember this name) - the Jewish Rabbi & his disciples who pay $10,000 for Kidneys from kidnapped Palestinian children, for his American-based Human Organ Business:
The Dirty Business Of Organ Trafficking, an Operation run by Rabbis

An Israeli hospital in the Negev Desert removes the Organs from Palestinian prisoners, ... and this is what happened when the Mothers came for their Kids
They were shot at by Israeli snipers!!!

Another heinous crime!
You may never know what results come of your action,
but if you do nothing there will be no result - ​

 

[gazoomartian]

fawad and abdul quddus saheban

any comments please?

your terrorist ally is stealing kidney from Palestinian, wanna say something?

hello any of you here??

 

[Star Gazer]

I think people who committ such acts should also be placed in the category of being terrorist.

 

[biomat]

Salam.
If some muslim does this what will be the world media response, thanks to FBI for catching him, but is it stopped now. Is Israel govt not involved in it, same as in Hariri murder & Hamas leader assasination in dubai?

 

[QaiserMirza]

US Soldiers Killed Afghan Civilians for Sport and Collected Fingers as Trophies Chris McGreal

Soldiers face charges over secret kill team which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war!

Andrew Holmes, Michael Wagnon, Jeremy Morlock and Adam Winfield are four of the five Stryker soldiers who face murder charges.​

Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret kill team that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.
Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders when he reported other abuses, including members of the unit smoking hashish stolen from civilians.
In one of the most serious accusations of war crimes to emerge from the Afghan conflict, the killings are alleged to have been carried out by members of a Stryker infantry brigade based in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan.
According to investigators and legal documents, discussion of killing Afghan civilians began after the arrival of Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs at forward operating base Ramrod last November. Other soldiers told the armys criminal investigation command that Gibbs boasted of the things he got away with while serving in Iraq and said how easy it would be to toss a grenade at someone and kill them.
One soldier said he believed Gibbs was feeling out the platoon.

Investigators said Gibbs, 25, hatched a plan with another soldier, Jeremy Morlock, 22, and other members of the unit to form a kill team. While on patrol over the following months they allegedly killed at least three Afghan civilians. According to the charge sheet, the first target was Gul Mudin, who was killed by means of throwing a fragmentary grenade at him and shooting him with a rifle, when the patrol entered the village of La Mohammed Kalay in January.
Morlock and another soldier, Andrew Holmes, were on guard at the edge of a poppy field when Mudin emerged and stopped on the other side of a wall from the soldiers. Gibbs allegedly handed Morlock a grenade who armed it and dropped it over the wall next to the Afghan and dived for cover. Holmes, 19, then allegedly fired over the wall.
Later in the day, Morlock is alleged to have told Holmes that the killing was for fun and threatened him if he told anyone.
The second victim, Marach Agha, was shot and killed the following month. Gibbs is alleged to have shot him and placed a Kalashnikov next to the body to justify the killing. In May Mullah Adadhdad was killed after being shot and attacked with a grenade.
The Army Times reported that a least one of the soldiers collected the fingers of the victims as souvenirs and that some of them posed for photographs with the bodies.
Five soldiers Gibbs, Morlock, Holmes, Michael Wagnon and Adam Winfield are accused of murder and aggravated assault among other charges. All of the soldiers have denied the charges. They face the death penalty or life in prison if convicted.
The killings came to light in May after the army began investigating a brutal assault on a soldier who told superiors that members of his unit were smoking hashish. The Army Times reported that members of the unit regularly smoked the drug on duty and sometimes stole it from civilians.
The soldier, who was straight out of basic training and has not been named, said he witnessed the smoking of hashish and drinking of smuggled alcohol but initially did not report it out of loyalty to his comrades. But when he returned from an assignment at an army headquarters and discovered soldiers using the shipping container in which he was billeted to smoke hashish he reported it.
Two days later members of his platoon, including Gibbs and Morlock, accused him of snitching, gave him a beating and told him to keep his mouth shut. The soldier reported the beating and threats to his officers and then told investigators what he knew of the kill team.
Following the arrest of the original five accused in June, seven other soldiers were charged last month with attempting to cover up the killings and violent assault on the soldier who reported the smoking of hashish. The charges will be considered by a military grand jury later this month which will decide if there is enough evidence for a court martial. Army investigators say Morlock has admitted his involvement in the killings and given details about the role of others including Gibbs. But his lawyer, Michael Waddington, is seeking to have that confession suppressed because he says his client was interviewed while under the influence of prescription drugs taken for battlefield injuries and that he was also suffering from traumatic brain injury.
Our position is that his statements were incoherent, and taken while he was under a cocktail of drugs that shouldnt have been mixed, Waddington told the Seattle Times.

 

[reliable]

Zulam zulam hey barhata hey to mit jata hey.............

 

[sangeen]

Inna lillah wa inna elaehe rajeoon....... Those soldiers collected the fingers as trophy but congratulation to America who collected sick soldiers as a whole.... Everyone knows when the soldiers go back to US after serving their time, they are useless part of the society, mentally sick and disturbed.....

 

[islamabadi2]

Where is the Invicinble Taliban now? There are people on this site...forgot theri name who claim that USA is loosing badly and the Taliban are some sort of holy Army from God...face the reality...the US millitary is just out on a duck shoot in Afghanistan...they can finish those talibans whenever they want...