GRAPHIC VIDEO: Afghanistan Motorcycle Kill

From Rolling Stone's Kill Team...

The clip presented here is excerpted from 'Motorcycle Kill,' a video collected and shared by members of the “kill team” of U.S. soldiers who murdered civilians in Afghanistan and mutilated the corpses.  The jumpy, 30-minute video – shot by soldiers believed to be with another battalion in the 5th Stryker Brigade – shows American troops gunning down two Afghans on a motorcycle who may have been armed. Even if the killings were part of a legitimate combat engagement, however, it is a clear violation of Army standards to share such footage. The video was taken on patrol with a helmet-mounted camera; at one point, the soldier shooting the images can be heard boasting, “I got it all on camera.”

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Also from Rolling Stone...

The clip presented here is excerpted from 'Death Zone,' a chilling video collected and shared by members of the “kill team” of U.S. soldiers who murdered civilians in Afghanistan and mutilated the corpses. Shot through thermal imaging, the grainy footage shows two Afghans suspected of planting an IED being blown up by an airstrike. While the deaths may have resulted from a legitimate combat engagement, the video itself represents a clear violation of Army standards. Scenes of the attack have been edited into a 15-minute music video, complete with a rock soundtrack and a title card. This clip from the video picks up shortly before the airstrike begins, accompanied by the song “En Vie” by Apocalyptica, a cello rock band from Helsinki. The video ends with grisly still images of the casualties, followed by closing credits. It was passed from soldier to soldier on thumb drives and hard drives, the gruesome video filed alongside clips of TV shows, UFC fights and films such as Iron Man 2.

Comments

[Hello There]

What's the point? War is hell, war is not a healthy environment. If you ask first and shot second, you could die. If you think it is a kind old woman, she is a he and has a bomb under the burka. Again, what is the point? How does this help Ron Paul?

I know, my opinion doesn't count. God bless.

[Rade]

Whats the point???? And at the end 'God bless'..... wow buddy you definetely got some wires loose up there.
Ah hell it's just a afghani, does it matter anyway? Would it matter if a "terrorist" blew up another building or anything else in the US because they can't stand your freedom or maybe they just want to revenge their loved ones who were brutally massacered by the biggest "liberation" army on this freakin earth. What the hell are you people doing there to begin with, cause of 9/11??
Some of you just don't seem to get it!
ACTION REACTION!!!

[john]

Only Thing Clear About Obama's Afghan Policy: It's a Disaster
by Ray McGovern

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/29-0

Note:

Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC. During his career as a CIA analyst, he prepared and briefed the President's Daily Brief and chaired National Intelligence Estimates. He is a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

[kc]

Wow. They wasted about $100,000 worth of ordinance on two peasants. No wonder the Taliban are winning. Can't they just pick them off with a couple of rounds from a sniper rifle? Or how about taking them prisoner? Guess that's more expensive than simply wasting them...

[Hello There]

to Rade...so explain it to us...please.

[DailyBail]

Rade...the war in afghanistan is not about the taliban...

[Human]

Rade: "Would it matter if a "terrorist" blew up another building or anything else in the US because they can't stand your freedom..."


So, you're the dip$hi+ who believed the hype about "hating our freedom." You REALLY think 9/11 was because they hated our freedom? Such an idiot. No wonder our fellow Americans are bleeding and being crippled in vast numbers--because people like you couldn't pull your head outta your a$$ long enough to see that the whole "war on terrorism" was complete load of bull.

It's people like you that are helping strip all of us of our freedoms--like habeas corpus--the right to know why you are being imprisoned. It used to be a mandatory freedom--now it's optional. It's at the discretion of the Pres and the SoD under the "Military Commissions Act of 2006". Look it up if you don't believe me. Thanks for being complicit in that, you complete jackhole. Why do YOU hate freedom? You don't? Just a loud mouth with no brain. Yet you voice your opinion as if you had something to add. You don't. So please, please for the sake of anything resembling the United States of America, STFU!

[Corey Mondello]

At 5:20, a soldier on the upper left side looks as if he is slicing open the dead man's face. This must be what i done prior to extracting the skull to keep as a trophy. I can almost smell the burning timbers of the next 9/11-like attack the USA deserves again.

[Rade]

@hello there, I don't understand your comment "War is hell, war is not a healthy environment. If you ask first and shot second, you could die." War is hell so it's allright to smoke em causse it could well be you to loose your life. 9/11 and the freedom thing are excuses that your "leaders" used to get involved!! Thank you for explaining to me that you are not there causse of 9/11, who didn't know that? You could care less for a afghani life, atleast that's what you expressed trough your comment.
As I wrote, action reaction! It wil only get worse, much worse!