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

[Jan Klimkowski]

Der Spiegel has published three of the images, and they were flashed up very quickly on Channel 4 news this evening. They looked like archetypal trophy photos - akin to the image of the colonial big game hunter posing arrogantly, imperiously, over his slain prey.

I've been unable to find them online, and they're not on Der Spiegel's international site.

Here's a description:

One of the pictures published by Der Spiegel shows a soldier, Specialist Jeremy N. Morlock of Wasilla, Alaska, posing, a grin on his face, next to a dead Afghan who is mostly undressed, his body streaked with blood, as the soldier is lifting the man's head up as if to show him off like a trophy. Specialist Morlock has been charged with murder.

A second, similar photograph shows another soldier, Pfc. Andrew H. Holmes of Boise, Idaho, who has also been charged with murder, kneeling next to the same corpse.

A third photograph shows two Afghan civilians who appear to be dead and whose bodies have been arranged leaning against a post.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/world/...istan.html