US Stryker Brigade 'Kill Team' kept Afghan civilians' fingers as trophies

SEATTLE - Twelve American soldiers face trial over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.

Five of the soldiers - Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, Jeremy Morlock, Andrew Holmes, Michael Wagnon and Adam Winfield - are charged in the United States with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year.

They face the death penalty or life in prison if convicted. MORE

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3 of the soldiers being tried for shooting Afghan civilians
for sport and keeping their fingers as trophies.