{"id":8634,"date":"2011-03-22T03:14:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8634"},"modified":"2011-03-22T03:14:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:44:53","slug":"the-kill-team-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8634","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Kill Team&#8217; images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/0,1518,752310,00.html\">SPIEGEL magazine<\/a> has published photos of U.S. troops posing with the corpse of an innocent Afghan civilian allegedly killed for sport by this so-called Stryker brigade &#8220;Kill Team&#8221;.\u00a0 The release of the photos has the U.S. and NATO concerned about a backlash.\u00a0 The U.S. Army issued an apology for the suffering the photos may cause.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image-194584-galleryV9-ghyz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8635\" title=\"Kill Team Afghanistan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image-194584-galleryV9-ghyz-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image-194584-galleryV9-ghyz-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image-194584-galleryV9-ghyz.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SPIEGEL wrote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The victim in the image is Gul Mudin, an Afghan man killed on Jan.  15, 2010 in the village of La Mohammed Kalay. In total, SPIEGEL and  SPIEGEL TV has obtained a significant number of photos and videos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The suspects are accused of having killed civilians for no reason and  then of trying to make it look as though the killings had been acts of  self-defense. Some of the accused have said the acts had been tightly  scripted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In one incident, which has been reconstructed based on documents from  the investigation, the soldiers themselves detonate a hand grenade in  order to make it look like they were the subjects of an attack before  killing a man. One of those who allegedly participated, Adam Winfield,  21, described the incident to his father in a chat on the social  networking site Facebook. &#8220;They made it look like the guy threw a  grenade at them and mowed him down,&#8221; SPIEGEL quotes Winfield as having  written in the chat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In a second incident on Feb. 22, 2010, one of the members of the  &#8220;kill team&#8221; who had been carrying an old Russian Kalashnikov, fired it  before pulling out another gun and shooting 22-year-old Afghan Marach  Agha. In a third incident on May 2, 2010, it appears that a hand grenade  attack was again staged before the shooting and killing of Mullah Allah  Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPIEGEL magazine has published photos of U.S. troops posing with the corpse of an innocent Afghan civilian allegedly killed for sport by this so-called Stryker brigade &#8220;Kill Team&#8221;.\u00a0 The release of the photos has the U.S. and NATO concerned about a backlash.\u00a0 The U.S. Army issued an apology for the suffering the photos may cause. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=8634\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The &#8216;Kill Team&#8217; images&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[69,2409],"class_list":["post-8634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crime","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8637,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions\/8637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}