If their trial were to being conducted by the Afghans then justice would probably be served. But if these five soldiers are tried by the U.S. Army then in all likelihood the fix is in.

These five soldiers killed, murdered, three humans. The US army has murdered hundreds of thousands throughout Iraq and Afghanistan...and many other countries of the world!!!! When will they and the politicians who ordered the murders be brought to justice?

Free video war games for troops so they can get their rocks off by pretending to kill instead going out and murdering for real!

At least these men will get a trial under established rules of law and proceedure, unlike those who are being held at Gitmo or Baghram, or where the hell else.

How tragic that our government has de-humanized those in uniform to the degree they would kill for sport. Get out of Afghanistan NOW. God knows the money sucked up by the Pentagon can be put to better use here. We know the corporations run the show-I had hoped that would change. The neocon vision of empire is still being played out. To truly fulfill the promises of this country, withdrawal from the hundreds of military bases we have established world-wide must occur. It is the same old story of the tail wagging the dog. We as citizens are mostly clueless. This forum is great, but how much of it is preaching to the choir?

As usuall, these twelve enlisted personnel were not under the direct supervision of a military officer, just like at Abu Graib! They concocted and carried out these murders without any of their immediate supervisiors having a clue as to what they were about? I seriously doubt it! Forget the just a few bad apples excuse, it would seem that the whole tree has gone bad!
Seems like the Army learned it's lesson after it had to have Major Colin Powell rat out Lieutenant Willam Calley for My Lai during his Court Martial!

I believe the soldiers under discussion in the above report are those described and identified in the following article from The Guardian (I am quoting just the first two paragraphs of the piece):

Thursday, September 9, 2010, The Guardian/UK

(Posted by Common Dreams on the same day)

US Soldiers 'Killed Afghan Civilians for Sport and Collected Fingers as Trophies'

Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war

by Chris McGreal

"Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.

Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders when he reported other abuses, including members of the unit smoking hashish stolen from civilians. [...]"

To my knowledge, the report of these atrocities did not make it into the mainstream U.S. press.

The military is trained to kill. It horrifies me to think they are bringing this training back to this country. It's no wonder so many of our veterans suffer from PTSD as they have been required to witness if not commit the most attrocious acts of violence.

It greatly alarms me that some of these people will be joining our civilian police forces. We are seeing in my city a spate of shootings by police as if that is their first response when they feel threatened.

We are also observing other forms of violence such as suicide, military sexual trauma, domestic violence, and homelessness in the ranks of current and former military.

This is good that the London based Guardian is covering this, but how much more of this is going unreported even by the British and even other West European mainstream media to cover for the USA as part of their alliance with the US imperialist state? The Washington Post is covering this as likely is the US mainstream media, but they're allowing the military command to gloss over and write this off to use of alcohol and hard drugs. This is so much hot air. The Guardian isn't even calling them on it, even though those there have to know this is happening all the time, unlike us on this side of the pond as the British refer to it.

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This is good that the London based Guardian is covering this, but how much more of this is going unreported even by the British and even other West European mainstream media to cover for the USA as part of their alliance with the US imperialist state? The Washington Post is covering this as likely is the US mainstream media, but they're allowing the military command to gloss over and write this off to use of alcohol and hard drugs. This is so much hot air. The Guardian isn't even calling them on it, even though those there have to know this is happening all the time, unlike us on this side of the pond as the British refer to it.

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Winning hearts and minds one cut off finger and one human life at a time. Even the troops are undermining the troops efforts to win friends among the Muslims. What are Americans doing there except making everything worse and wasting blood and money? What about the drones that are killing suspected terrorist without a trial? The U.S.A.above constitutional law, moral law and international law. I agree with the question howcanthisbehappening?

Another story that M$M that most of M$M will ignore. It doesn't go well with the political talking points that the USA is a model state and it is only other countries that commit human rights abuses.

Let the scapegoating begin.

Cheney, Bush, Obama have murder millions, but these five misdirected fools are being tried for killing.

I am laughing at this joke.

"Be All You Can Be; Be A Murderer!"

I've got the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade in my area, a liberal area known for the redneck clown circus going on around it.
Remember Battle In Seattle - yokel redneck wehrmacht brought in from the hinterlands.

The question is does an Army murder charge preclude or expedite your hiring into the civilian police forces where you can start shooting Indians with carving knives (and white kids scoring pot - but they pushed that one under the rug REAL deep...)

If people like this are allowed to enter the police force, they do not have legitimate jurisdiction over anyone, period.

Terror Multiplication.
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What about the other killers who declare
that they have a free kill licence,
to kill as many civilians as they dare.
Because they have a job of utmost violence.

There is the elected President,
who orders deaths to get votes.
To maintain an oil supply, surely its evident,
requires bombing from drone remotes.

The pilots who frag,
No blood can they see
about kills that they can brag,
to make quota and collect a fee.

Collateral damage takes so many lives.
The folks that knew them are unforgiving,
Once somebodies sons, daughters and wives,
the innocent dead haunt the living

There are night home raiders who doubtless,
kill every living being found inside,
and any neighbour that looks like a witness.
Small villages are slaughtered in multi-homicide.

Each kill reported as a terrorist death,
since the killers do the reporting.
adds to statistics lies that steal your breath.
With absolute evil we have been consorting.

Not questioned is the reasoning of this war.
To kill off a few hundred terrorists or a score,
We train hundreds of thousands more,
To brutalise a nation to make millions galore.

Such brutal affairs of state we do make,
With world domination of oil at stake.
The CIA funded a group to attack home soil,
To return a new century war of spoil.

The names of these five are George W Bush, Richard Cheney, Condiliza Rice, Rummy, & Colin Powell. And then I woke up.