Green Beret: Team leader shot, mutilated man

Green Beret:|Team leader shot, mutilated man
By Estes Thompson - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Aug 12, 2008 20:59:49 EDT

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — The leader of an Army special forces team “grinned” as he held the ear of an Afghan man he suspected of being an insurgent after he shot him and left his body in the desert, a Green Beret testified Tuesday.

The testimony by Sgt. 1st Class Ricky Derring came at a military hearing for his team leader, Master Sgt. Joseph D. Newell, 38, from Tecumseh, Mich. Newell, who has served in the military for two decades, could face court-martial on a murder charge in the March 5 killing of the Afghan civilian.

Derring said Newell returned to the spot where he left the man’s body and “made a stabbing motion and I could see his arms cutting.” Newell then walked back to the team’s vehicle with the man’s ear in his hand, Derring said.

“He shook the ear and grinned,” Derring said.

Under cross examination by Newell’s civilian attorney Todd Conormon, Derring said he didn’t actually see Newell cut off the man’s ear.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/ap_newellhearing_081208/

its just a few bad apples. Yeah, Right.:puke:

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