The Thrill of the Hunt in Afghanistan

What? 

It's the face of liberation!

"Inquiry finds GIs plotted to slay civilians for sport; Five are accused in random deaths of three Afghans" by Craig Whitlock, Washington Post  |  September 26, 2010  

That's what the whole damn exercise is in my opinion. 

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — The US soldiers floated a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it.

For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, hatched the idea. Then, one day last winter, a solitary Afghan man approached them in the village of La Mohammed Kalay. The “kill team’’ activated the plan.

One soldier created a ruse that they were under attack, tossing a grenade on the ground. Then others opened fire.

According to charging documents, the unprovoked, fatal attack on Jan. 15 was the start of a months-long shooting spree against Afghan civilians that resulted in some of the grisliest allegations against American soldiers since the US invasion began in 2001.  

Sort of like TERRORISTS, huh?

Members of the platoon have been charged with dismembering and photographing corpses, as well as hoarding a skull and other human bones.

The same sort of stuff happened in Vietnam -- and in ALL WARS it seems!! 

This time it is the AmeriKa Empire engaged in such atrocities -- a fact that will be noted in the pages of history when all things have been said and done.

The subsequent investigation has raised accusations about whether the military ignored warnings  that the out-of-control soldiers were committing atrocities. The father of one soldier said he repeatedly tried to alert the Army after his son told him about the first killing, only to be rebuffed.  

Nothing new; they like it.  Just good soldiers doing their duty and killing the "enemy."

Two more slayings would follow. Military documents allege that five members of the unit staged the three murders in Kandahar Province between January and May. Seven other soldiers have been charged with crimes related to the case, including hashish use, attempts to impede the investigation, and a retaliatory gang assault on a private who blew the whistle.  

And they are our best. 

Think of that the next time you hear or see the president praising our great troops.

Army officials declined to comment on the case.

The accused soldiers, through attorneys and family members, deny wrongdoing. But the case has already been marked by a cycle of accusations and counter-accusations among the defendants as they seek to pin the blame on each other.

The Army has scheduled pretrial hearings in the case this fall. Military officials say privately that they worry the hearings will draw further attention to the case, prompting anger among the Afghan civilians whose support is critical to the fight against the Taliban....  

F*** your damn war, AmeriKan media!

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Related: Army sergeant planned killings of Afghan civilians, soldier says  

Globe Editorial Army must answer for failure to probe attacks on Afghans 

How about the Globe answering for front-paging the damn war lies, hanh?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!