Soldier admits taking fingers as war trophies, denies murder http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/news/military/21342-soldier-admits-taking-fingers-as-war-trophies-denies-murder-.html  An Army staff sergeant described by a comrade as "evil incarnate" cut fingers off the corpses of three Afghan civilians - but he had nothing to do with any plot to slaughter those unarmed men for sport, his lawyer said Monday. In some of the most gruesome allegations to emerge from the Afghan war, prosecutors say Gibbs and his co-defendants slaughtered the victims with grenades and powerful machine guns during patrols in Kandahar province, then dropped weapons near their bodies to make them appear to have been combatants.Of the five soldiers charged as part of the so-called "kill team" within the platoon, three have pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Gibbs, who faces up to life in prison without parole if convicted.