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http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/27/background-u-s-soldiers-charged-with-murder/?hpt=T1
Tapes obtained by CNN of interrogations of a group of U.S. servicemen
charged with the unprovoked

killings of Afghan civilians describe gruesome scenes of cold-blooded
murder carried out under

the influence of illegal drugs.

The following is a partial transcript of those tapes, between a
military investigator and Cpl.

Jeremy Morlock, one of the five U.S. soldier charged with the
premeditated murder of three Afghan

civilians.

"So we met this guy by his compound, so Gibbs walked him out, set him
in place, was like standing

here," said Morlock, detailing how, on patrol earlier this year and
under the command of his

sergeant, Calvin R. Gibbs, he and others took an Afghan man from his
home, stood him up and

killed him.

"So, he was fully cooperating?" the military investigator asks on the
tapes.

"Yeah," Morlock responds.

Investigator: "Was he armed?"

Morlock: "No, not that we were aware of."

Investigator: "So, you pulled him out of his place?"

Morlock: "I don't think he was inside. He was by his little hut area
... and Gibbs sent in a

couple of people. He sent Rodriguez off a little ways, far side
security. As I said, I'm not even

sure Rodriguez knew what was going on and them."

Investigator: "Where did they stand him, next to a wall?"

Morlock: "Yeah, he was kinda next to a wall, so where Gibbs could get
behind a wall when the

grenade went off and then he kind of placed me and Winfield off over
here so we had a clean line

of sight for this guy and, you know, he pulled out one of his
grenades, an American grenade,

popped it, throws the grenade and tells me and Winfield, 'Alright, wax
this guy. Kill this guy,

kill this guy.' "

Investigator: "Did you see him present any weapons? Was he aggressive
toward you at all?"

Morlock: "No, not at all. Nothing, he wasn't a threat."

The Army alleges that three Afghan civilians were killed between
January and May of this year.

Morlock's civilian attorney, Michael Waddington, did not deny that his
client killed for sport.

"That's what it sounds like," he told CNN.

Waddington said his 22-year-old client was brain-damaged from prior
IED attacks, was using

prescription drugs and smoking hashish and was under the influence of
and in fear of his

commanding officer, who is also charged.

A hearing is set for Monday for Morlock, the first of five soldiers
charged with the premeditated

murder of three Afghan civilians. The hearing at Joint Base
Lewis-McChord in Washington will

determine whether the military has enough evidence against him to
proceed with a court-martial.

Some background on the case:
Over this summer, 12 U.S. soldiers were charged for a variety of
crimes in what military

authorities believe was a conspiracy to murder Afghan civilians and
cover it up, along with

charges they used hashish, mutilated corpses and kept grisly
souvenirs.

Five soldiers face murder charges, while seven others are charged with
participating in a

coverup. All of the men were members of a 2nd Infantry Division
brigade operating near Kandahar

in southern Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010.

According to the military documents, Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs and four
other soldiers were

involved in throwing grenades at civilians and then shooting them in
separate incidents. Three

Afghan men died.

Authorities allege Gibbs kept finger bones, leg bones and a tooth from
Afghan corpses. Another

soldier, Spc. Michael Gagnon II, allegedly kept a skull from a corpse,
according to charging

documents. Several soldiers are charged with taking pictures of the
corpses, and one – Spc. Corey

Moore – with stabbing a corpse.

Five soldiers were originally arrested in June and seven others were
charged last month.

The five facing murder charges are Gibbs, of Billings, Montana; Pfc.
Andrew Holmes of Boise,

Idaho; Winfield, of Cape Coral, Florida; Spc. Michael Wagnon, of Las
Vegas, Nevada; and Spc.

Jeremy Morlock of Wasilla, Alaska.

The five are from the 5th Stryker Brigade of the 2ID, based out of
Fort Lewis, Washington.

In May, CNN reported that the Fort Lewis Stryker Brigade, known as the
"5-2," had been the

subject of controversy for months inside Army circles. The unit has
suffered some of the highest

casualty rates of the war. Several senior U.S. Army officials had told
CNN there has been a

growing belief inside Army circles the brigade was not embracing
McChrystal's counter-insurgency

strategy and was too heavily focused instead on combat operations.

In one of the most comprehensive analyses of the 5-2's troubled tour
in southern Afghanistan, the

Army Times reported in January that the brigade commander Col. Harry
Tunnell replaced one of his

company commanders whose group had suffered high casualties.

But the Army Times, a privately-published newspaper, quoted several
soldiers who said that

company commander was very popular with the troops, and that the
unit's deep-set troubles and

casualties resulted from a lack of training for the type of
counter-insurgency warfare now being

called for.

"What we're doing is not working, and we need to go on a different
tack," the Army Times quoted

one soldier as saying.

A senior U.S. Army official directly familiar with Stryker operations
said the command of the 5-2

has been a concern to the Army for months.