Winter Soldier: Afghanistan

Afghan Convoy of Death

Littered with burned tanks, trucks, cars and Iraqi corpses, the stretch of road from Kuwait to Basra has been deemed the “Highway of Death”; the American-perpetrated atrocity is viewed by many as a war crime — due in no small part to the deliberate carpet-bombing of a stretch of highway where hysterical Iraqis became landlocked in traffic. Above: American soldiers pry open the car trunks and take as much ammunition and as many weapons as they can carry. (Source: CBC, www.cbc.ca).