US Army ‘Kill Team’ photo scandal

21 03 2011

From Uruknet

US Army ‘kill team’ in Afghanistan posed with photos of murdered civilians

Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for possible riots and public fury triggered by the publication of “trophy” photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of defenceless Afghan civilians they killed.

Senior officials at Nato’s International Security Assistance Force in Kabul have compared the pictures published by the German news weekly Der Spiegel to the images of US soldiers abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib in Iraq which sparked waves of anti-US protests around the world.

They fear that the pictures could be even more damaging as they show the aftermath of the deliberate murders of Afghan civilians by a rogue US Stryker tank unit that operated in the southern province of Kandahar last year.

Some of the activities of the self-styled “kill team” are already public, with 12 men currently on trial in Seattle for their role in the killing of three civilians.

Five of the soldiers are on trial for pre-meditated murder, after they staged killings to make it look like they were defending themselves from Taliban attacks.

Other charges include the mutilation of corpses, the possession of images of human casualties and drug abuse. . . (more)

http://uruknet.net/?p=m76043&hd=&size=1&l=e

The Der Spiegel website doesn’t seem to have the photos up now. Their photo display on the story has standard file photos. FireDogLake has links to a few pictures —

http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/03/21/another-abu-ghraib-photos-of-army-kill-team-in-afghanistan-released/

… here are some of the thousands of photos reportedly taken by this gang of murderers while in US uniform:

UPDATE:

Rolling Stone has more [GRAPHIC] images –
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-kill-team-photos-20110327


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What WikiLeaks never said, hearsay exposed

28 02 2011

MEDIA SPAM

from http://humanityinchaos.com/MediaSpam.html

By Karl F. Stewart

 

“. . . .  In some circles it’s widely accepted that knowledge is power, and the individual who excludes him or herself from the information loop risks becoming powerless. To convince yourselves of the concept, look at governments and corporations and the enormous amounts of information they have on the majority of the population and the power they wield over the many. Now look at the majority of humanity and how little information people have about their governments and those corporations which dominate the economic and social spheres of everyday life.

But yet when an organization, or a cooperative of organizations, tries to break the monopoly on information, it’s often the masses which attack these very organizations and claim disdain for their activities. The lies and innuendoes about Wikileaks, and the nature of the free flow of information, are contemporary examples of how quickly people become disenchanted with the notion of freedom.

The number of bloggers, pundits and journalists who have cut and pasted unsubstantiated truths about Wikileaks is astounding. It’s the spamming by well known or unheard of internet addresses against Wikileaks that clog the search results with their scoops. Take a look at the accusations that Wikileaks is connected to either Mossad, the CIA, Soros or all of them.

By putting Wikileaks Mossad in the search field on Google.com, the first hit on 18 February 2011 was for a blog on The Telegraph in England. The title of the entry read Is Wikileaks a Front for the CIA or Mossad? The reason the blogger asked the question was because the blog’s writer had just heard an unnamed Iranian analyst during an undisclosed interview on Al Jazeera say that Wikileaks had to be a front for these organizations given the nature of the diplomatic cables which discredit “the region’s leaders and Iran in particular.”

And if you read the blog entry you’ll find that the blogger never goes on to directly accuse Wikileaks of Mossad connections, but the perception constructed through an evocative title remains a top hit on the number one search engine. . . . ” (more)

http://humanityinchaos.com/MediaSpam.html


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