U.S. Army Launches Investigation Into Vile War Crimes By Troops In Afghanistan
- 6 years ago
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
A rogue American soldier loads up an enemy corpse with deadly explosives, pulls the trigger — and mutilates the war dead. A second image horrifically shows the splatter after C4 exploded his brain.Afghan-Pakistani border during his 2003 tour of duty.
As Radar went to press with the findings of our bombshell, two-month investigation, the damning testimony uncovered here was in the hands of appalled lawmakers and Army chiefs, who pledged an urgent investigation.
“We take allegations of this nature very seriously,” Chris Grey, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, the criminal investigative arm of the military, told Radar.
definitely a war crime.”
Some consider the degrading treatment of our enemy’s dead, below, the vilest war crimes since the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal during America’s second Iraq war.
he stumbled on the photos after superior officers ordered him to scrub his fellow servicemen’s laptops for inappropriate or incriminating content.
Defying those orders, Logan kept the images, he said.
Then, after the memories haunted him for close to 15 years, he decided to step forward from the shadows and provide them to Radar.
Unloading a hard drive containing 231 photos, Logan also delivered 24 official U.S. Army documents to support his version of events.
Logan said rumors flew around his unit of U.S. soldiers committing atrocities and desecrating enemy dead. His commanding officers ordered him to scrub unit member laptops for fear of a scandal.
perished during the ensuing years.
Intentionally mistreating a dead body is one of 32 listed offenses that constitute war crimes under the Military Commissions Act of 2009.
Pinsker and JAG, the legal branch of the U.S. Air Force, Army, Coast Guard and Navy, have declared the punishment for war crimes can include “the death penalty.”
But what makes this atrocity all the more unforgiveable, said sources, is Islam’s chief prophet, Muhammad, having specifically condemned desecration of fallen enemies.
containing the war crime images. But paramedics saved his life — and, as it happened, the images, too. They gave him purpose.
as his accusations assuredly swirled behind the scenes, the Army slapped Logan with charges of sexual misconduct — and provided itself cover from any explosive allegations concerning war dead.
Documents provided to Radar confirm Logan was accused of attempted rape in 2015.
A court-martial resulted in his demotion to private.
keeping this secret for so long,” he told Radar. “It was eating me up inside.”
— Reporting by Ralph Ortega
A rogue American soldier loads up an enemy corpse with deadly explosives, pulls the trigger — and mutilates the war dead. A second image horrifically shows the splatter after C4 exploded his brain.Afghan-Pakistani border during his 2003 tour of duty.
As Radar went to press with the findings of our bombshell, two-month investigation, the damning testimony uncovered here was in the hands of appalled lawmakers and Army chiefs, who pledged an urgent investigation.
“We take allegations of this nature very seriously,” Chris Grey, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, the criminal investigative arm of the military, told Radar.
definitely a war crime.”
Some consider the degrading treatment of our enemy’s dead, below, the vilest war crimes since the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal during America’s second Iraq war.
he stumbled on the photos after superior officers ordered him to scrub his fellow servicemen’s laptops for inappropriate or incriminating content.
Defying those orders, Logan kept the images, he said.
Then, after the memories haunted him for close to 15 years, he decided to step forward from the shadows and provide them to Radar.
Unloading a hard drive containing 231 photos, Logan also delivered 24 official U.S. Army documents to support his version of events.
Logan said rumors flew around his unit of U.S. soldiers committing atrocities and desecrating enemy dead. His commanding officers ordered him to scrub unit member laptops for fear of a scandal.
perished during the ensuing years.
Intentionally mistreating a dead body is one of 32 listed offenses that constitute war crimes under the Military Commissions Act of 2009.
Pinsker and JAG, the legal branch of the U.S. Air Force, Army, Coast Guard and Navy, have declared the punishment for war crimes can include “the death penalty.”
But what makes this atrocity all the more unforgiveable, said sources, is Islam’s chief prophet, Muhammad, having specifically condemned desecration of fallen enemies.
containing the war crime images. But paramedics saved his life — and, as it happened, the images, too. They gave him purpose.
as his accusations assuredly swirled behind the scenes, the Army slapped Logan with charges of sexual misconduct — and provided itself cover from any explosive allegations concerning war dead.
Documents provided to Radar confirm Logan was accused of attempted rape in 2015.
A court-martial resulted in his demotion to private.
keeping this secret for so long,” he told Radar. “It was eating me up inside.”
— Reporting by Ralph Ortega