War in Afghanistan

 http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/27/background-u-s-soldiers-charged-with-murder/?hpt=T1
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39375104

When looking at CNN, FOX News, and MSNBC for news articles about the war in Afghanistan I found a news article about US Soldiers Facing Murder Charges for crimes committed. I found articles about the same story on CNN and MSNBC but could not find the story on FOX News.

The news articles contained the a few key facts such as:

• Dead bodies being staged by US forces
• Two of the victims were grenaded and shot while the third was just shot.
• The murders took place between January and March of this past year.
• A total of 12 Army personal are charged with the crime of murder
• 4 of the soldiers are also charged with keeping body parts as trophies such as skull, fingers, teeth, and bones in general

 MSNBC mainly gives out the pertinent information and looks at what happened while CNN has a copy of a tape in which a soldier admits what happens and gives an account of what happened while FOX does not have anything listed about this case. There is a few differences between the stories on CNN and MSNBC but for the most part are reporting the same thing. FOX news hasn't reported this story yet but it was just announced to the public recently so it may not have been uploaded yet onto their website.

This story is one that is very important for many reasons, if this is currently going on then the military should definitely keep a close eye on the other forces overseas because most likely others are committing the same crime as well. We should also hold each other accountable saying that this is unacceptable and we should be held to a higher standard. Also this case is going to be a political nightmare and we are going to lose support in anything we do in the future.

 http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/09/27/griffin.soldiers.afghanistan.cnn