This from The Washington Post/The News Tribune: Three days after they killed an Afghan cleric named Mullah Adahdad, members of a Stryker platoon from Joint Base Lewis-McChord returned to his village.

Tribal elders had complained to Army officers that the cleric had been unarmed and that the May 2 shooting was a setup. The soldiers tried to convince them otherwise.

"This guy was shot because he took an aggressive action against coalition forces," Lt. Stefan Moye, the platoon leader, explained to village residents in Qualaday, in Kandahar province. "We didn't just (expletive) come over here and just shoot him randomly. And we don't do that."

But Army charging documents now allege that's exactly what some soldiers in the platoon did. According to the documents, the cleric's death culminated a monthslong conspiracy in which members of the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division randomly targeted and killed three unarmed Afghan men, dismembered corpses and posed for grisly photographs with their victims.

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