Afghanistan: Secret Report on US Commander of Kill Team "Let's Kill Those M*****F*****s" (Der Spiegel)

According to a statement by one witness, Colonel Tunnell himself had spoken about "small kill teams," who were supposed to ruthlessly hunt down the Taliban. He gave speeches where he outlined his preferred "counterguerrilla" strategy, which was based on creating "targets of opportunity" and carrying out missions to "search and destroy" Taliban fighters. One soldier quoted in the report summed it up in the following way: "If I were to paraphrase the speech and my impressions about the speech in a single sentence, the phrase would be: 'Let's kill those motherfuckers.'"

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Afghanistan Video and Report: The US Military's "Kill Team"

The "Kill Team" documentary from Der Speigel --- Warning: Graphic Content
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John Horne writes for EA:

Over the last two weeks, and days before violent protests erupted in Afghanistan, the US magazine Rolling Stone and Germany's Der Speigel have presented investigations --- including graphic photographs --- of atrocities committed by US troops. Soldiers belonging to a platoon stationed in Kahdahar Province murdered local Afghans, took pictures of themselves posing with the bodies, planted weapons, and even removed body parts to keep as trophies.

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