Community | March 28, 2011 | 6 comments

More of the U.S. "Kill Team" war-crimes photos in Afghanistan

The Rolling Stone magazine has a special report on the U.S. Army's self-proclaimed "kill team"—whose members are currently on trial in the U.S. for murdering Afghan civilians.

Included in the report are new chocking photos and video from the cache that was partially leaked to Der Spiegel last week.

Warning: These are graphic photos.


They are a mix of disturbing photographs of the so-called kill team's victims and more innocuous pictures of fellow soldiers and Afghan kids.

The photos, and the sick details that emerge are horrific, particularly the possibility that some of the photographs are "evidence that the killings of civilians went beyond a few men in 3rd Platoon," and may have been undertaken by other platoons as well. 

According to the Rolling Stone, the Pentagon went to extraordinary lengths to suppress the photos—possibly because of the fact that they implicated soldiers in other platoons—and, unsurprisingly, worries that they will create a scandal of Abu Ghraib-level proportions in Iraq.

Click here to read and watch this Rolling Stone special investigation.

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