According to an internal investigation, a squad of US soldiers based in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, formed a “kill team” that murdered unarmed civilians for sport, sometimes keeping body parts as souvenirs.
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Porn, hashish and killing for kicks … what fuelled a GI death squad in Afghanistan
The United States military is struggling to contain a war crimes scandal that has the potential to be the most damaging since revelations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2004.
