John Needham, Iraq Veteran, Accuses Army Of War Crimes

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/1 ... ing-grid10

This weekend's CBS show "48 Hours Mystery" focused on John Needham, a young veteran from the war in Iraq who allegedly brutally killed his girlfriend in 2008 and died two years later.

In the episode, CBS describes how Needham claimed to have witnessed horrendous atrocities committed by his unit against Iraqis during their deployment in the country. In a letter to senior army officials, Needham wrote that he suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression. He described what he called war crimes, asked for an investigation and requested to be assigned to a different unit.

Needham described other alleged atrocities. According to his letter, he witnessed Iraqi teenagers being beaten by American soldiers. He also alleged that American troops paraded dead bodies on top of their humvees, skinned an Iraqi's face and tore the brain out from a body.

Needham included photos in his letter.

Needham believed that the Army never acted on his testimony. "They took it all down, said thank you for your information and I never heard anything again," he said, according to CBS.

Yet "48 Hours Mystery" obtained parts of an army document that reportedly shows the military did in fact conduct an investigation. The report concluded that there were no war crimes.

In 2008, police arrested Needham after receiving a domestic violence call. They found his girlfriend, Jacquelyn Joann Villagomez, in a nearby room, badly beaten. She died in the hospital.

Needham died in 2010 after overdosing on painkillers.

Needham's full letter is available on the website of the Veterans Project. WARNING: The page contains extremely disturbing photos of mutilated bodies.

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To anyone thinking about joining the military, I suggest reading this article first and seeing the video before they decide to join.

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Here's another shocking article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -life.html

U.S. sergeant who gunned down unarmed Afghan civilians and cut off their fingers as trophies is jailed for life

• Sergeant Calvin Gibbs cut fingers off corpses and yanked out victim's tooth as war trophies
  Co-defendants said he played with victim's corpse 'like a puppet'
  Gibbs convicted of murder in one of the most gruesome cases of Afghan war
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A 'savage' U.S. Army sergeant who shot dead three unarmed Afghan civilians for sport has been convicted of murder and jailed for life.

Army Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs was the highest ranking of five soldiers charged over the deaths of the unarmed men during patrols in Kandahar province early last year.

At his court martial, the 26-year-old acknowledged cutting fingers off corpses and yanking out a victim's tooth to keep as war trophies 'like keeping the antlers off a deer you'd shoot'.