Afghan "Kill Team" Photos Released: 'Much Worse Than Abu Ghraib'

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    • Daily News @ RevolutionNews.US — As horrifying as the photos were from Abu Ghraib prison, the ones published today by Rolling Stone magazine are far worse. At least the prisoners at Abu Ghraib were alive when they were abused. The German newspaper Der Spiegel, which previously worked with the New York Times and The Guardian of England to publish the documents "leaked to WikiLeaks by PFC. Bradley Manning, published a few photos last week of American soldiers gloating over the dead bodies of Afghan civilians. Rolling Stone has published 17 more pictures. They show soldiers holding up the heads of the dead the way hunters hold up the heads of dead deer. The show soldiers arranging the bodies for trophy pictures. They show, most of all, how the mentality of war dehumanizes the "enemy" even if, as is the case in Iraq and Afghanistan, the "enemy" is being fuzzily defined. The Rolling Stone article was written by Mark Boal, the Academy Award winning screenwriter for The Hurt Locker. He is exposing for the public the investigation, cover-up and prosecutions resulting from the creation of "Kill Teams" in Afghanistan -- groups of soldiers engaged in the murder of civilians. So far, the soldiers have been prosecuted, their officers have not, just as in the Abu Ghraib investigation. Eric Bates, executive editor of Rolling Stone, appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe Monday to discuss the article and the implications. The Pentagon has tried to suppress the photos and reports about the <b>...</b>
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