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This weekend's shooting spree in Afghanistan is hardly the first atrocity committed by a member of the US military. We look back in history at five other horrific incidents that shook America, its armed forces, and the world.
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Kim Sa-Bok, left, a survivor of an alleged civilian massacre by US troops during the Korean war, talks about his experience to members of the Korea Truth Commission August 4, 2001 at the scene of the incident in South Korea''s Kyoung Sang province. The delegation is investigating charges of civilian massacres by US troops during the 1950-1953 Korean War.
- [Chung Sung-Jun/AFP/Getty Images]
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This picture taken March 7, 2008 shows what is re-created as the foundation of a destructed home whose five members were killed by US soldiers 40 years ago during the My Lai massacre at the site of the massacre museum in the central province of Quang Ngai. In 1968, hundreds of people, most of them civilians and many of them women and children, were killed by US soldiers in what had been intended as a "search and destroy" mission to flush out Viet Cong fighters. The My Lai massacre was one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam war, and for many the scars have yet to heal four decades later.
- [Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images]
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An Iraqi security officer stands guard outside the newly opened Baghdad Central Prison in Abu Ghraib on February 21, 2009 in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraqi Ministry of Justice has renovated and reopened the previously named "Abu Ghraib" prison and renamed the site to Baghdad Central Prison. According to the Iraqi Ministry of Justice about 400 prisoners were transferred to the prison which can hold up to 3000 inmates. The prison was established in 1970 and it became synonymous with abuse.
- [Wathiq Khuzaie/AFP/Getty Images]
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A US soldier stands guard as Iraqi freed prisoners walk out of Abu Ghraib prison on June 23, 2006 west of Baghdad, Iraq. More than 500 Iraqi detainees were released from Abu Ghraib prison today in accordance with a national reconciliation plan, which sees to release a total of 2500 prisoners as announced by Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
- [Wathiq Khuzaie/AFP/Getty Images]
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Maliya Abdul Hamid Hassan Ali, whose father and other relatives had been allegedly killed in a fatal US marines raid, shows a picture of her father and other relatives on June 2, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. Maliya was not in Haditha at the time of the incident but she traveled afterwards and helped move the bodies of her relatives. A preliminary report into the alleged massacre by US Marines of Iraqi citizens in the western city of Haditha would be reviewed reportedly by Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the second-ranking US general in Iraq.
- [Akram Saleh/AFP/Getty Images]
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Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich (R) walks into court with his defense attorney Neal Puckette during opening statements in the Haditha murders trial at Camp Pendleton on January, 9, 2012 in Oceanside, California. Staff Sgt. Wuterich is being charged in the deaths of 24 Iraqis during a military operation in 2005.
- [AFP/AFP/Getty Images]
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Afghan men prepare graves for people killed in a US airstrike at Azizabad village in Herat province, east of Kabul on August 23, 2008. Afghan villagers staged an angry protest on August 23 amid claims that 76 civilians were killed in coalition air strikes against Taliban rebels, as the US military launched an investigation.
- [AFP/AFP/Getty Images]
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A mourner cries over the bodies of Afghan civilians, allegedly shot by a rogue US soldier, seen loaded into the back of a truck in Alkozai village of Panjwayi district, Kandahar province on March 11, 2012. An AFP reporter counted 16 bodies -- including women and children -- in three Afghan houses after a rogue US soldier walked out of his base and began shooting civilians early Sunday. NATO's International Security Assistance Force said it had arrested a soldier "in connection to an incident that resulted in Afghan casualties in Kandahar province", without giving a figure for the dead or wounded.
- [AFP/AFP/Getty Images]
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