Rogue soldiers in Afghanistan

A group of U.S. soldiers from a platoon in the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade is accused of targeting Afghan civilians for sport.

By Craig Whitlock

WASHINGTON POST
Saturday, September 18, 2010; 9:39 PM

For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, floated 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 fragmentary 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 U.S. invasion in 2001. Members of the platoon have been charged with dismembering and photographing corpses, as well as hoarding a skull and other human bones.

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This is sickening -- according to the story, one soldier told his father, who tried desperately to get the military to listen to him, but they blew off the warnings that U.S. soldiers were plotting and committing murders.