Druged U.S.soldiers killing for sport afghan civilians

Tapes obtained by CNN of interrogations of a group of U.S. servicemen charged with the unprovoked killings of Afghan civilians describe gruesome scenes of cold-blooded murder carried out under the influence of illegal drugs.
Over this summer, 12 U.S. soldiers were charged for a variety of crimes in what military authorities believe was a conspiracy to murder Afghan civilians and cover it up, along with charges they used hashish, mutilated corpses and kept grisly souvenirs.
Five soldiers face murder charges, while seven others are charged with participating in a coverup. All of the men were members of a 2nd Infantry Division brigade operating near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010.
According to the military documents, Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs and four other soldiers were involved in throwing grenades at civilians and then shooting them in separate incidents.

Authorities allege Gibbs kept finger bones, leg bones and a tooth from Afghan corpses. Another soldier, Spc. Michael Gagnon II, allegedly kept a skull from a corpse, according to charging documents. Several soldiers are charged with taking pictures of the corpses, and one -- Spc. Corey Moore -- with stabbing a corpse.

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Drug production in Afghanistan has had a 40-fold increase since the U.S. led invasion of the country in 2001. But why the U.S. refusing to stop this dangerous and evil industry in occupied Afghanistan? Maybe like in the 80's, the Russophobes in the U.S. government don't mind fostering the terrorist networks in their strong desire to hurt neighboring Russia by killing tens of thousands of young Russians with a new covert action of narcotics flow. Estimates of how much money the former U.S. administrations channeled to the Afghan rebels during Soviet war with Islamic extremists vary, but most sources put the figure between $5 billion and $6 billion or more. If this is true, it is a repeated crime based on madness. The Russian intervention in December 1979 that meant to save the secular Afghan government and to prevent the neighboring country from turning into a terrorist state was the signal for U.S. Russophobes to considerably increase support to the Afghan Mujahedeen. Results are well known. After almost winning war against radicals, Soviet army withdrew and now American solders are dying fighting former allies of U.S. Russophobes. "It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the drug business provides the financial basis for terrorism and is one of its main factors for its upsurge"- said Viktor Ivanov, the head of Russia's Federal Service for the Control of Narcotics. IT WAS OSAMA BIN LADEN, IVANOV REMINDED, WHO IN THE MIDDLE 1990's CREATED HEROIN SUPPLY CHAINS TO RUSSIA'S CHECHNYA IN ORDER TO FUND CHECHEN TERRORISTS. "The task of eradicating Afghan opium production is an unrivaled priority for Russia", said Ivanov. "More than 90 percent of drug addicts in our country are consumers of opiates from Afghanistan. Up to 30,000 people die of heroin-related illnesses annually". Last year, Ivanov took his message to Washington D.C., where he gave a speech to the Nixon Center. There he stressed that Russia is not the only country that is threatened by the scourge of Afghan opium production. Ivanov then quoted the political analyst and author, David Kilcullen, the author of the book, "The Accidental Guerrilla." If the U.S. is already bombing Taliban positions", he quotes Kilcullen as saying, "why wont U.S. army sprays their fields with a harmless herbicide and cut off terrorists money?" 7,700 tons of opium were produced in Afghanistan last year, officials say, which accounts for 93 percent of total global opium production. Needless to say, opium is Afghanistan's cash crop. Will the United States eventually give in to Russian requests for an active defoliation program? Russia is the main victim of Afghan heroin, Ivanov said. However, it is helping the United States and NATO by making concessions. Russia allowed the transit of not only non-lethal, but also military Afghanistan-bound cargoes across Russian territory. This must be viewed as considerable support to the Coalitions activities in Afghanistan. Given this grim political landscape that presents a massive threat to both U.S. and Russia, some form of mutually advantageous cooperation should be achievable. After all, both countries share more or less the same nightmares over Afghanistan wars. Whatever the U.S. government's current rhetoric about the repressive nature of the Taliban regime, its long history of intervention in the region and beyond (including recent support for brutal Georgian aggression against civilians in South Ossetia and Russian peacekeepers) has been motivated not by concern for democracy or human rights, but by the Russophobia, the narrow economic and political interests of the U.S. ruling class. It has been prepared to aid and support the most retrograde elements and evil actions if it thought a temporary advantage would be the result.

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[carlosmercadoabarca]

but wait a minute, i tought the NAZI were defeated in the world war 2 and now they are dressed in US army uniforms???

[FuryOfTheSwarm]

i hate america! death to america!

[Mireneusz1]

They just lie about doing drugs.They just feel they will be screwed up and put in prisons.Hope these soldiers will get what they deserve.

[lucasB823]

@boomerang403 A quick fact check wouldn't hurt you. The US has the largest economy by far, its not even close. In fact, its almost as big as the entire EU.

US GDP: 14,526,550.

China GDP: 5,878,257

China may be growing fast, but the United States continues to have the largest economy and continues to be the worlds largest exporter of goods and services by a substantial margin. And the economy HAS gone down badly, it did nothing to the military.

[boomerang403]

@lucasB823 Largest economy BULLSHIT ..Chinea's got a better economy they do mass trading . If the economy went down badly ...then It will affect the army ,just as what happened to the British ...They had to axe 400 jobs just to get some money

[lucasB823]

@boomerang403 If the US economy got screwed up then the rest of the worlds economy would also be screwed up. The US has the largest economy in the world, even if it does get screwed up and dips like it did in the recession, the government would still have the funds for the army regardless. The economy doesn't affect that. And i think you misinterpreted what i said. The US will, of course, fall at some point. Every country does, but not anytime soon. The US is still a very young country.

[boomerang403]

@lucasB823 The US can't rely on sheer military power. Let's think of this then .What if the economy got screwed up and who the hell would you pay the soldiers. Without soldiers if an invading country came here.The fight would look more like a massacre than a battle .You say the US will never be invaded . Well think history Hannibal beat the Romans. Why the Soviets beat the Germans at the brutal Siege of Stalingrad and Why the Spartans beat the Persians.

[lucasB823]

@boomerang403 The US will not be invaded. Im not sure who you think will invade the US, considering the US has a very powerful army and there really aren't any nations who have a relationship with the US bad enough to want to invade, let alone have the armed forces to even be able to do so. North Korea and Iran are really the only two countries unstable enough to attack the US. NOBODY. not even americans, think killing innocent people is "heroic." How old are you?

[Chiliconnada]

@boomerang403 I agree the U.S. shouldn't be there, but if the Afghans or whomever would try to invade us they would be fucked. Why? Because the country is full of people like me.