Friday, November 11, 2011

Afghanistan - Life for US army thrill-killer Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs


From: Euronews  | Nov 11, 2011
http://www.euronews.net/ An American soldier behind a spate of thrill-killings in Afghanistan has been sentenced to life in prison.

Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs admitted at the Court-martial hearing he had chopped the fingers off victims and kept them as trophies "like keeping the antlers off a deer you shoot".

The 26-year-old denied murder but the jury decided he was indeed the ringleader of a rogue platoon after three soldiers testified to killing Afghan villagers on Gibbs' orders and then disguising their deaths for them to appear as in combat.

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