Child witnesses to Afghan massacre say Robert Bales was not alone

[awakejupiter]

Here are two versions of what happened the night of March 11, when 17 Afghan villagers were shot to death.

First, the Army version: Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, troubled by marriage woes, drunkenly left Camp Belambai, 12 miles from Kandahar, with a pistol and an automatic rifle and killed six people as they slept. Bales then returned to the base and

Comments

[koken23]

If this is true...

[mollywobbles867]

I believe it. Didn't the initial reports say there were multiple people?

[rjdaae]

Yep.

[sassalicious]

I don't find it hard to believe. Things like this have happened before in war...My Lai comes to mind.

[luminescnece]

10 points to your house for knowledge of military atrocity.

[sassalicious]

Why thank you. One of my majors in college was southeast Asian studies and I lived in the region/Vietnam for just over 2 years. The Vietnamese Wars are quite fascinating to me.

[laja_89]

Have you read Rumors of War???

[doverz]

Not hard to believe at all.

[lickety_split]

The coverage on the news about this is so creepy. It's always this looooooong slideshow of this smiling, nice-looking dude laughing and getting along with other people. If you weren't paying attention to the story you'd think they were talking up some wonderful guy.

[crossfire]

Yes! That's what has been bugging me about the coverage, I wasn't able to put my finger on it.