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Title: Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales Named As Suspect In Afghanistan Massacre
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YahooNews
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout ... nistan-massacre-224453357.html
Published: Mar 16, 2012
Author: By Liz Goodwin, National Affairs Reporte
Post Date: 2012-03-16 19:40:38 by Murron
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Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales Named As Suspect In Afghanistan Massacre Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales during a training exercise at Fort Irwin, CA. (Photo released in August by the 28th Public Affairs Detachment) Military sources late Friday identified Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales as the name of the 38-year-old suspect accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a Sunday rampage. Bales has not yet been charged in the case. He was flown to the U.S. military maximum security prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas from Kuwait Friday. "I can confirm" the name of the suspect is Robert Bales, a U.S. official told Yahoo News on condition of anonymity. Bales' Seattle-area celebrity lawyer, John Henry Browne, said Friday that his client is in shock. "He is in shock, kind of like a deer in headlights at the moment," Browne said Friday morning, a local station near Joint Base Lewis-McChord King 5 News, reported. "I told him not to talk about the allegations at all, so I cannot tell you how he is responding because I told him not to talk about it." Browne earlier told reporters at a news conference Thursday that the decorated soldier wasn't happy that he had been deployed a fourth time despite sustaining two injuries, including a traumatic head injury and the partial loss of his foot in Iraq. Browne dismissed rumors that the soldier had marital troubles, and said he had two young children. "I can confirm" the name of the suspect is Robert Bales, a U.S. official told Yahoo News on condition of anonymity. Bales' Seattle-area celebrity lawyer, John Henry Browne, said Friday that his client is in shock. "He is in shock, kind of like a deer in headlights at the moment," Browne said Friday morning, a local station near Joint Base Lewis-McChord King 5 News, reported. "I told him not to talk about the allegations at all, so I cannot tell you how he is responding because I told him not to talk about it." Browne earlier told reporters at a news conference Thursday that the decorated soldier wasn't happy that he had been deployed a fourth time despite sustaining two injuries, including a traumatic head injury and the partial loss of his foot in Iraq. Browne dismissed rumors that the soldier had marital troubles, and said he had two young children. "He did not want to deploy," Browne told the Seattle Times. "In fact he was told he was not going to go. Then, really almost overnight, that changed." Browne told the paper that a soldier in his unit had lost a leg in combat the day before the alleged shooting. The New York Times quoted a "senior" American official saying the soldier had been drinking before the alleged shooting."When it all comes out, it will be a combination of stress, alcohol and domestic issues — he just snapped," the anonymous official told the paper. The soldier was one of 4,000 soldiers in the 3rd (Stryker) Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division stationed at Lewis-McChord in Washington state. The base's medical center is being investigated for allegedly down-grading post traumatic stress diagnoses to other mental illnesses that do not prevent deployment or qualify soldiers for disability payments.
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#1. To: Murron (#0)
The UCMJ will take care of this. This is not Haditha where Troops were in hot pursuit. This is cold blood murder.
BUWAHAHHAHAHAHAAHA You have right of return, huh....;} It was all very regrettable and unfortunate, but in the long run it didn’t matter because the Iraqis weren’t ready for democracy anyway. All’s well that ends well. Log it in the history books and move on. We hear a lot of blather about leadership and integrity, courage, responsibility, and other such lofty sentiments, but the fact is American leaders are models of immoral cowardice. Genuine virtue is as foreign to them as a rain forest is to an Eskimo. They behave like greedy jackals and when their schemes blow up in everyone else’s face, they shrug their shoulders and say, “Don’t blame us!” It’s getting really old, and it also has a corrosive effect.
#3. To: All (#2)
We invade. Kill who we want. And apologize when we 'kill the 'wrong' people. Slap our wrist, then go kill some more. So convenient, and yet they hate us....;}
What level of leadership are you basing your thesis?
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#2. To: redleghunter (#1)
This is not Haditha where Troops were in hot pursuit. This is cold blood murder.
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#4. To: mcgowanjm (#2)
American leaders are models of immoral cowardice.
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