The United States Army has announced that Corporal Jeremy Morlock is to face a court martial on three charges of premeditated murder. Morlock is accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport; at least eleven other soldiers are caught up in the allegations. The five are accused of unprovoked grenade and gun attacks. Seven other soldiers are accused of conspiring to cover up the crimes by dismemberment of the corpses and collecting body parts. No other cases have yet been committed for trial, including that of Gibbs. All the soldiers are from the 5th Stryker brigade, which went to Afghanistan last year and has seen combat in Kandahar , where the alleged attacks occurred between January and May this year. Morlock is also going to stand trial for assault, use of a controlled substance ( hashish ), attempting to block an investigation, conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to assault and "wrongfully photographing and possessing visual images of human casualties". The soldiers are accused of photographing their victims and keeping body parts as trophies, though the military has not yet commented on if bones they say the men took were in fact from civilian murder victims. Al Jazeera English reports that much media attention has focused on this detail.
The United States has announced that Corporal Jeremy Morlock is to face a on three charges of premeditated murder. Morlock is accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport; at least eleven other soldiers are caught up in the allegations. The five are accused of unprovoked grenade and gun attacks. Seven other soldiers are accused of conspiring to cover up the crimes by dismemberment of the corpses and collecting body parts. No other cases have yet been committed for trial, including that of Gibbs. All the soldiers are from the 5th Stryker brigade, which went to Afghanistan last year and has seen combat in , where the alleged attacks occurred between January and May this year. Morlock is also going to stand trial for assault, use of a controlled substance ( ), attempting to block an investigation, conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to assault and "wrongfully photographing and possessing visual images of human casualties". The soldiers are accused of photographing their victims and keeping body parts as trophies, though the military has not yet commented on if bones they say the men took were in fact from civilian murder victims. reports that much media attention has focused on this detail.
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