Defense Lawyers: ‘Kill Team’ Case Goes Beyond ‘One Rogue Platoon’
by AUSTIN JENKINS September 27, 2010 JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – There are nobodies, no physical evidence. But Army prosecutors say they have enough testimony and photographs to make their case against five Washington-based soldiers accused of murdering Afghan civilians. The first court hearing in this war-crimes case took place at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near […]
Army Coverup: Murder For Sport in Afghanistan
By Matthew Cole and Angela Hill The allegations are reminiscent of the military’s darkest days in Vietnam. Again, young GI’s caught up in a difficult war are accused of widespread drug use and the random killing of innocent civilians, apparently for sport or thrills. But the parents of one of the five soldiers charged with […]
Hearing begins in alleged plot to murder Afghans
By GENE JOHNSON (AP) – 27 September 2010 JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A soldier’s videotaped statements describing how he and his colleagues randomly killed three Afghan civilians came under scrutiny Monday at a hearing into one of the most serious war-crimes cases from the war in Afghanistan. Cpl. Jeremy Morlock of Wasilla, Alaska, is […]
Hearing begins for soldier accused of killing Afghan civilians
September 27, 2010 Fort Lewis, Washington (CNN) — A hearing opened Monday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington for the first of five soldiers charged with the premeditated murder of three Afghan civilians. Monday’s hearing is to determine whether the military has enough evidence against Spc. Jeremy Morlock to proceed with a court-martial. Army Special […]