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=> is THIS genocide?

is THIS genocide?

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, September 27 2010, 17:38:22 (UTC)
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...it´s terrible...it´s illegal...it´s a crime against humanity, it´s a war crime...it isn´t mass murder yet because we have no indication of how many were murdered like this at one time....but is it genocide?

From Drew Griffin, CNN Correspondent

Tapes obtained by CNN of interrogations of a group of U.S. servicemen charged with the unprovoked killings of Afghan civilians describe gruesome scenes of cold-blooded murder carried out under the influence of illegal drugs.

The following is a partial transcript of those tapes, between a military investigator and Cpl. Jeremy Morlock, one of the five U.S. soldier charged with the premeditated murder of three Afghan civilians.

"So we met this guy by his compound, so Gibbs walked him out, set him in place, was like standing here," said Morlock, detailing how, on patrol earlier this year and under the command of his sergeant, Calvin R. Gibbs, he and others took an Afghan man from his home, stood him up and killed him.

"So, he was fully cooperating?" the military investigator asks on the tapes.

"Yeah," Morlock responds.

Investigator: "Was he armed?"

Morlock: "No, not that we were aware of."

Investigator: "So, you pulled him out of his place?"

Morlock: "I don't think he was inside. He was by his little hut area ... and Gibbs sent in a couple of people. He sent Rodriguez off a little ways, far side security. As I said, I'm not even sure Rodriguez knew what was going on and them."

Investigator: "Where did they stand him, next to a wall?"

Morlock: "Yeah, he was kinda next to a wall, so where Gibbs could get behind a wall when the grenade went off and then he kind of placed me and Winfield off over here so we had a clean line of sight for this guy and, you know, he pulled out one of his grenades, an American grenade, popped it, throws the grenade and tells me and Winfield, 'Alright, wax this guy. Kill this guy, kill this guy.' "

Investigator: "Did you see him present any weapons? Was he aggressive toward you at all?"

Morlock: "No, not at all. Nothing, he wasn't a threat."

The Army alleges that three Afghan civilians were killed between January and May of this year.

Morlock's civilian attorney, Michael Waddington, did not deny that his client killed for sport. "That's what it sounds like," he told CNN.

Waddington said his 22-year-old client was brain-damaged from prior IED attacks, was using prescription drugs and smoking hashish and was under the influence of and in fear of his commanding officer, who is also charged.

..."mistakes" were not made....one of the strategies for this war was to create a pool of self-generating terrosists and enemies...otherwise the American people would again be demanding a "peace dividend", like they did when the Soviet Union collapsed and we were stupid enough to think anybody had been pretecting us from Communism when they´d been using it all along to sacre us into giving them all the money they wanted to "protect us"...they´re doing it again...only now they needed Terrorists...so what better way than to kill innocent Muslims and let the world KNOW we are doing it because if no oen hears about, there won´t be new recruits for "terrorists".

..we certainly have no trouble paying our own.

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