Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs
Πηγή: newKerala
Nov 1 2011
Washington : A US Army staff sergeant, who was charged with killing three Afghan civilians, has admitted cutting fingers off dead bodies as ‘war trophies’, his lawyer has said.
Twenty-six-year-old Staff Sgt Calvin Gibbs’s lawyer Phil Stackhouse told a court on Monday that Sgt Gibbs, the member of self-styled ‘kill-team’, admitted taking fingers off the three victims and keeping them as war trophies or giving to others involved in the killings.
Stackhouse told jurors at the court martial that Sgt Gibbs, one of five soldiers charged for killings, believed that the three killings had been legitimate engagements and that his co-defendants had conspired him against, the BBC reports.
According to the report, military prosecutor Capt Dan Mazzone said that Sgt Gibbs had killed simply because he wanted to kill.
He said that the accused also led a group in assaulting a soldier who reported drug use in the unit, and that he threatened the same soldier.
“This platoon is out of control. He sees weak leaders; he sees an opportunity; he sees soldiers who are willing to cross the line,” Mazzone said.
Sgt Gibbs is accused of providing a grenade used in January 2010 to kill the first victim, an unarmed farmer in a field in Kandahar, and to shooting or tossing grenades at the next two in February and May of that year.
He will face life imprisonment without parole if convicted, the report said.
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