U.S. soldiers accused of killing unarmed Afghans

A group of U.S. soldiers from a platoon in the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, including Calvin Gibbs, stands accused of targeting Afghan civilians for sport.

May 5, 2010

First Lieutenant Stefan Moye, right, talks to a villager in about the man soldiers shot the week before.

Max Becherer-Polaris

May 5, 2010

Moye has been using interpreters to speak with elders in the farming community where soldiers are accused of killing a cleric without cause.

Max Becherer-Polaris

May 5, 2010

Staff Sgt. Calvin R. Gibbs, the alleged ringleader of the self-described "kill team," crosses a field of poppy on his way into the of Aktraray in Kandahar province. He has been charged in connection with the killing.

Max Becherer-Polaris

May 5, 2010

American soldiers from third platoon, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment have spent time attempting to tell farmers their version of the story of the Afghan villager's death.

Max Becherer-Polaris

Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, in a picture from the 1999-2000 Billings (Mont.) Senior High School yearbook. Gibbs, whom some defendants have described as the ringleader, has been charged in three deaths.

Courtesy of The Billings (Mont.) Gazette

U.S. Army Spec. Adam Winfield while on duty in Afghanistan. He and two other soldiers are accused of fatally shooting an Afghan cleric.

Family photo via Associated Press

Emma and Christopher Winfield hold a photograph of their son, Spec. Adam Winfield, at their home in Cape Coral, Fla. Christopher Winfield says he warned the Army after his son told him via the Internet that members of his platoon were targeting civilians.

Erik Kellar-Associated Press

Emma and Christopher Winfield with their son, Adam. The parents say they can't understand why the Army has charged their son, given that his father tried to warn officials about the platoon.

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The Winfield family. The attorney for Adam, right, said his client was ordered to shoot but fired high and missed. He is charged in the death of an Afghan cleric.

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Spec. Adam C. Winfield

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Pfc. Andrew Holmes of Boise, Idaho, has been charged in one death. Holmes and his attorney said he opened fire only because he was ordered to do so.

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Holmes, left, "was unwittingly used as the cover story," said Daniel Conway, a civilian defense attorney. "He was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

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Holmes, with his mother.

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Spec. Michael S. Wagnon II of Las Vegas is charged in one of the slayings. He has also been charged with possessing "a skull taken from an Afghan's corpse."

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Cpl. Jeremy N. Morlock of Wasilla, Alaska, is charged in three slayings.

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U.S. soldiers accused of killing unarmed Afghans

A group of U.S. soldiers from a platoon in the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, including Calvin Gibbs, stands accused of targeting Afghan civilians for sport.

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