Author Topic: US soldier admits to sport killing (Read 1045 times)

Belloc · « **on:** December 03, 2010, 07:41:02 AM »

http://presstv.ir/detail/153539.html

A US military court has spared an American soldier from an early discharge from the US Army after he admitted to shooting unarmed Afghan civilians for fun.

Staff Sergeant Robert Stevens, 25, an Army medic from the State of Oregon, was only sentenced to nine months in prison on Wednesday for killing Afghan civilians, after pleading guilty.

He confessed to opening fire on two Afghan farmers in March 2010 for no apparent reason. He and other US troops were acting on orders from a squad leader during a patrol in March, Reuters reported.

The case began as an investigation into hashish use among US soldiers who were part of an infantry unit then known as the 5th Stryker Brigade. But the investigation has grown into the most serious prosecution of alleged atrocities by US military personnel in nearly nine years of conflict in war-torn Afghanistan.

Four more US soldiers are implicated in the case. The soldiers have been charged with other crimes, including mutilating bodies and keeping body parts as trophies.

Stevens has agreed to testify against the other members of the group.

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innocenza · « **Reply #1 on:** December 03, 2010, 11:47:10 AM »

So much for the soldierly duty to obey orders.

Will any higher-ups be held to account?

Belloc · « **Reply #2 on:** December 03, 2010, 11:51:49 AM »

not liekly, Bush/Obama,et all should be tried, but no one is willign to do so......

gladius_veritatis · « **Reply #3 on:** December 07, 2010, 08:30:47 AM »

As the victims are not seen as human beings, nothing will be done -- just like when an Israeli soldier picks of some Palestinian kid for fun.

Belloc · « **Reply #4 on:** December 07, 2010, 09:03:23 AM »

true, more sophisticated now then showing wide eyed ghetto Jєωs and rats running around, but the effect is the same-de-humanize people until they become expendable and less worthy of life

Like the unborn, becoming "blobs of tissue",etc-though many prolife conservatives see that and not see non-USA people as the same, humans-many prolifers are gung ho to bomb "nutty mulims that love to kill"