WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES<br /><br />A rogue American soldier loads up an enemy corpse with deadly explosives, pulls the trigger — and mutilates the war dead. A second image horrifically shows the splatter after C4 exploded his brain.Afghan-Pakistani border during his 2003 tour of duty.<br /><br />As Radar went to press with the findings of our bombshell, two-month investigation, the damning testimony uncovered here was in the hands of appalled lawmakers and Army chiefs, who pledged an urgent investigation.<br /><br />“We take allegations of this nature very seriously,” Chris Grey, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, the criminal investigative arm of the military, told Radar.<br /><br />definitely a war crime.”<br /><br />Some consider the degrading treatment of our enemy’s dead, below, the vilest war crimes since the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal during America’s second Iraq war.<br /><br />he stumbled on the photos after superior officers ordered him to scrub his fellow servicemen’s laptops for inappropriate or incriminating content.<br /><br />Defying those orders, Logan kept the images, he said.<br /><br />Then, after the memories haunted him for close to 15 years, he decided to step forward from the shadows and provide them to Radar.<br /><br />Unloading a hard drive containing 231 photos, Logan also delivered 24 official U.S. Army documents to support his version of events.<br /><br />Logan said rumors flew around his unit of U.S. soldiers committing atrocities and desecrating enemy dead. His commanding officers ordered him to scrub unit member laptops for fear of a scandal.<br /><br />perished during the ensuing years.<br /><br />Intentionally mistreating a dead body is one of 32 listed offenses that constitute war crimes under the Military Commissions Act of 2009.<br /><br />Pinsker and JAG, the legal branch of the U.S. Air Force, Army, Coast Guard and Navy, have declared the punishment for war crimes can include “the death penalty.”<br /><br />But what makes this atrocity all the more unforgiveable, said sources, is Islam’s chief prophet, Muhammad, having specifically condemned desecration of fallen enemies.<br /><br />containing the war crime images. But paramedics saved his life — and, as it happened, the images, too. They gave him purpose.<br /><br />as his accusations assuredly swirled behind the scenes, the Army slapped Logan with charges of sexual misconduct — and provided itself cover from any explosive allegations concerning war dead.<br /><br />Documents provided to Radar confirm Logan was accused of attempted rape in 2015.<br /><br />A court-martial resulted in his demotion to private.<br /><br />keeping this secret for so long,” he told Radar. “It was eating me up inside.”<br /><br /><b><i>— Reporting by Ralph Ortega</i></b>