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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