AFGHAN WITNESSES SAY SGT. ROBERT BALES DID NOT ACT ALONE-AFGHAN MASSACRE 3/11

 

I am sick unto death of hearing about the stresses of poor Robert Bales and what a nice guy he is. The comments I find defending him on line are as vile as some of the horrific commentary to be found in Israeli newspapers! 

It is time the victims of this indefensible violence were given names and voice. The voice of TRUTH ~ not this constant whitewash of bile spewed by the American military.  There ought to be a "Baffle them with BS Nobel Award" given to these lying  entities in the Pentagon.  

Posted by Asif Shah

PAKCONNECTS

March 30, 2012

Witnesses to the massacre of 17 Afghan civilians by Staff Sgt. Robert Bales say there was more than one U.S. soldier party to the crime, contradicting the story told by the Pentagon.

Yalda Hakim, a journalist for SBS Dateline in Australia, was born in Afghanistan and immigrated to Australia as a child. She is the first international journalist to interview the surviving witnesses, which she was able to do after American officials tried to prevent her contact with the village witnesses.
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Journalist Yalda Hakim and cameraman Ryan Sheridan were granted rare access to President Hamid Karzai’s chief investigator, to survivors and their relatives, and to the area where the attacks took place.

An 8-year old Afghan girl named Noorbinak, according to the MSNBC, “told Hakim that the shooter first shot her father’s dog. Then, Noorbinak said in the video, he shot her father in the foot and dragged her mother by the hair. When her father started screaming, he shot her father, the child says. Then he turned the gun on Noorbinak and shot her in the leg.”

“One man entered the room and the others were standing in the yard, holding lights,” Noorbinak said in the interview.

A brother of one of the victims said the children who witnessed saw many soldiers. “They don’t know whether there were 15 or 20, however many there were,” he said in the interview.

 
When recounting the attacks, several survivors referred to more than one American soldier being involved.

Amina, a mother of six children whose husband was murdered, told Hakim: “When they shot dead my husband, I tried to drag him into the house, they'd shot him in the head so his brain was all over my hands. I had to use a bowl for his blood."

 “I saw more than 20 people when I looked out the house. The Americans pointed their gun at me and threatened me, telling me not to leave the house or they'd kill me,” Amina continued.

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Claims that Bales did not act alone are being examined by President Hamid Karzai’s chief investigator, General Sher Mohammad Karimi.

“What they claim is that there were boot prints in the area, in some area they see the kneeling position of three, four individuals, and also they claim that the helicopters were there to support the operations,” General Karimi told Hakim. 

“Of course I told them the helicopters were used when the guy went missing when they were searching for him. They said ‘no, the noise of the helicopters were from the very beginning the shooting start’.

So, that means there were many Americans who were supporting this issue that were doing this deliberately it is not an individual. So, that is the claim of the people,” General Karimi continued.

US Army officials have repeatedly denied that others were involved in the massacre, maintaining that Bales acted alone.
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