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''Are the American soldiers coming back, papa?'' This is a question Fateh Mohammad hears almost every night. He and his family live in Zangabad, a small village around 40 kilometers away from Kandahar.

http://bit.ly/GKicqW



What are the Americans hiding?

By Justin Raimondo

The murder of 17 Afghan civilians, most of them children by staff sergeant Robert Bales, may be far worse than we think at present.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30906.htm



How much more blood on David Cameron s hands in Afghanistan?

The news that two soldiers have been killed at the hands of an Afghan soldier only underlines the desperate failure of the war and the senseless loss of life.

http://bit.ly/HaeyAa



Symmetry of Slaughter

By Gwynne Dyer

The Bales atrocity, is already being written off by the American media and public as a meaningless aberration that tells us nothing about US foreign policy or national character. Not so.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30937.htm



Anatomy of a Massacre

Eye Witness Report Of Recent Afghan Massacre

Video Report

Yalda Hakim travels to the villages where the massacre took place and interviews survivors of the attack. Many Afghans, including some of the survivors that night, believe more than one U.S. soldier was present in the two villages where the killings took place.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30942.htm



Afghan Massacre: Survivors Recall Horror Of Attack By U.S. Army Sgt.

The survivors' accounts lend an urgency to the official version of events, and they convey the brutality and the seeming randomness of what took place in those early-morning hours.

http://bit.ly/Kof0xP



'He just started shooting me' witnesses reveal details of Kandahar massacre

''We are children! We are children!'' was one victim s last phrase before being killed in a shooting spree as American Staff Sergeant Robert Bales left sixteen Afghan civilians dead, according to witness testimonies.

http://is.gd/2arT87


From Information Clearing House

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Sgt. Robert Bales and the Trauma of Repeat Deployments

Video

Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: ''Does Robert Bales, the army staff sergeant who allegedly killed 17 Afghan civilians on March 11, symbolize a larger problem in our military ranks? In this web-exclusive video, Vietnam veteran and military scholar Andrew Bacevich talks with Bill Moyers about Bales' accountability, the stress of repeated tours on soldiers, and how war itself 'compromises our humanity.' This weekend on public television, Moyers and Bacevich explore the futility of 'endless' wars, and provide a reality check on the rhetoric of American exceptionalism.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/8158-sergeant-robert-bales-and-the-trauma-of-repeat-deployments



Evidence Mounts That Afghan Massacre Was Linked to Special Operations Forces' Response to Improvised Explosive Device

Gareth Porter and Shah Nouri, Truthout: ''Interviews with survivors, relatives of the civilians massacred in Panjwai on March 11 ... add new evidence suggesting that the massacre was linked to the response by the US Special Operations Forces (SOF) unit to a roadside bomb that had blown up a US troop carrier three days earlier. The brother of one of those killed said that the victim had been warned by a US soldier at a checkpoint near the Special Forces camp that the Americans knew his vineyard was very close to where the improvised explosive device (IED) exploded.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9294-evidence-mounts-that-afghan-massacre-was-linked-to-special-operations-forces-response-to-improvised-explosive-device

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Many soldiers participated in massacre, Afghan witnesses tell Australian TV
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/10941/

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The US Massacre Mentality
http://lewrockwell.com/douglas/douglas52.1.html



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