驻阿美军被曝进行杀人比赛 斩平民手指作战利品

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　　驻阿美军近日被曝曾在阿富汗进行“杀人比赛”，甚至还将遇害平民的手指收集起来作为“战利品”。

　　据英国《卫报》9日报道，有12名驻阿美军被曝曾在去年11月起秘密组织“杀人小组”，滥杀阿富汗平民后，其中有5人“为了好玩”，在一年内杀害过3名阿富汗平民，另外7人则被指控故意掩盖这些杀人事实，并且还对1名试图揭露这一罪行的新兵进行羞辱。而据这位新兵披露，“杀人小组”不仅滥杀无辜，还曾从阿富汗平民处偷来大麻吸食。

　　据报道，被控士兵隶属驻扎在阿富汗坎大哈省的美军“史崔克战斗旅”，滥杀罪行是去年11月上士卡尔文吉布斯到来后开始的。在随后几个月巡逻过程中，他们至少杀害了3名阿富汗平民。当他们的第一个“目标”在今年1月被杀害后，当事者事后称“那只是为了好玩”，还威胁其他人不许揭发。据报道，他们中年龄最小的一名士兵专门收集遇害者的手指作为“战利品”，并且还对某些手指专门摆造型进行拍照。据报道，这5名罪行恶劣的美军士兵现已被指控谋杀、恶性袭击和其他罪名，一旦罪名成立将面临死刑或终身监禁处罚。

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U.S. Soldiers Allegedly Killed Afghan Civilians, Kept Body Parts As Trophies

A dozen U.S. soldiers are charged with organizing a secret "kill team" which allegedly murdered Afghan civilians at random and cut fingers and other body parts from corpses as trophies.

Charging documents released Wednesday shed new light on the cases against 12 soldiers who served a year in southern Afghanistan with a Stryker infantry brigade.

The most serious accusations involve five soldiers -- Calvin Gibbs, Adam Winfield, Jeremy Mortlock, Andrew Holmes and Michael Wagnon II -- who are said to have slain three Afghans earlier this year. According to reports, those men would likely be charged with premeditated murder, but may face additional charges relating to obstructing justice, possessing human body parts and retaining mortar rounds for personal use.

Authorities allege that Gibbs kept finger bones, leg bones and a tooth from the Afghan corpses, while Wagnon is said to have kept a skull. The remaining seven soldiers are charged with participating in the cover-up, which included smoking hashish stolen from the civilians, taking photos of the corpses and lying to investigators about their deaths.

Winfield's father Christopher has slammed the accusations against his 22-year-old son, telling the Associated Press he tried nearly half a dozen times to pass on urgent messages to the Army, received via e-mail and Internet chats, from his son earlier this year. According to the elder Winfield, his son had witnessed -- but did not participate in -- the murder of the first civilian, and had been physically threatened by Gibbs to keep quiet.

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Adam Winfield, 22, is one of five U.S. soldiers charged with the premeditated murder of 3 Afghan civilians.

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