Der Rolling Stone veröffentlicht schockierende Photos des US-amerikanischen "Kill Teams" und dokumentiert widerwärtigste Kriegsverbrechen der Internationalen Sicherheitsunterstützungstruppe an Zivilisten in Afghanistan:
"Even before the war crimes became public, the Pentagon went to extraordinary measures to suppress the photos, launching a massive effort to find every file and pull the pictures out of circulation before they could touch off a scandal on the scale of Abu Ghraib. The images – more than 150 of which have been obtained by Rolling Stone – portray a front-line culture among U.S. troops in which killing innocent civilians is seen as a cause for celebration. “Most people within the unit disliked the Afghan people,” one of the soldiers told Army investigators. “Everyone would say they’re savages.”Many of the photos depict explicit images of violent deaths that have yet to be identified by the Pentagon. Among the soldiers, the collection was treated like a war memento. It was passed from man to man on thumb drives and hard drives, the gruesome images of corpses and war atrocities filed alongside clips of TV shows, UFC fights and films such as Iron Man 2. One soldier kept a complete set, which he made available to anyone who asked."
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"Another photo of Afghan children. According to one soldier, members of 3rd Platoon also talked about a scenario in which they “would throw candy out in front and in the rear of the Stryker; the Stryker would then run the children over.”
Was wurde eigentlich aus den Ermittlungen zu den, aus der geöffneten Feldpost entwendeten USB-Sticks deutscher Soldaten und der Waffenspielerei im OP North, die zum Tod des Hauptgefreiten Oliver O. führte ?