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Title: Up to 20 US troops executed Panjwai massacre: probe
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pajhwok.com
URL Source: http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2012/03/1 ... xecuted-panjwai-massacre-probe
Published: Mar 15, 2012
Author: Bashir Ahmad Naadim
Post Date: 2012-03-17 13:18:34 by bluegrass
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KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): A parliamentary probe team on Thursday said up to 20 American troops were involved in Sunday’s killing of 16 civilians in southern Kandahar province. The probing delegation includes lawmakers Hamidzai Lali, Abdul Rahim Ayubi, Shakiba Hashimi, Syed Mohammad Akhund and Bismillah Afghanmal, all representing Kandahar province at the Wolesi Jirga and Abdul Latif Padram, a lawmaker from northern Badakhshan province, Mirbat Mangal, Khost province, Muhammad Sarwar Usmani, Farah province. The team spent two days in the province, interviewing the bereaved families, tribal elders, survivors and collecting evidences at the site in Panjwai district. Hamizai Lali told Pajhwok Afghan News their investigation showed there were 15 to 20 American soldiers, who executed the brutal killings. “We closely examined the site of the incident, talked to the families who lost their beloved ones, the injured people and tribal elders,” he said. He added the attack lasted one hour involving two groups of American soldiers in the middle of the night on Sunday. “The villages are one and a half kilometre from the American military base. We are convinced that one soldier cannot kill so many people in two villages within one hour at the same time, and the 16 civilians, most of them children and women, have been killed by the two groups.” Lali asked the Afghan government, the United Nations and the international community to ensure the perpetrators were punished in Afghanistan. He expressed his anger that the US soldier, the prime suspect in the shooting, had been flown out of Afghanistan to Kuwait. He said the people they met had warned if the responsible troops were not punished, they would launch a movement against Afghans who had agreed to foreign troops’ presence in Afghanistan under the first Bonn conference in 2001. The lawmaker said the Wolesi Jirga would not sit silent until the killers were prosecuted in Afghanistan. "If the international community does not play its role in punishing the perpetrators, the Wolesi Jirga would declare foreign troops as occupying forces, like the Russians," Lali warned. President Hamid Karzai on Thursday asked the US to pull out all its troops from Afghan villages in response to the killings. Poster Comment: If not for the internet, much of the world would still be believing the BS official story.
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There's a good summary of everything that's been published on this since the incident at the wiki link below including facts about the alleged perp. Again, a lot of little things don't add up, but I'm going to step back and see how all this develops before I shoot my mouth off. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales at the Fort Irwin National Training Center in August 2011. Incident According to official reports, a heavily armed American soldier left his base at 3:00 a.m. local time wearing night vision goggles.[18] He was wearing traditional Afghan clothing over his ISAF fatigues.[19][20] The soldier walked one mile, then proceeded to attack three civilian homes in the villages of Balandi[21] and Alkozai, according to an eyewitness.[22][23] Eleven members of the same family were killed in a house in the first village, then their bodies were partially burned.[24][8] Then one more civilian was killed in another house in the same village. Later four members of another family were killed in Alkozai.[24][25] According to a 16-year-old boy who was shot in the leg, the soldier woke up his family members before shooting them.[26] In total, sixteen people were killed, including nine children, four men, and three women. Five others were injured.[23] Four of the murdered children were sisters between the ages of 2 and 6 and four others were brothers aged between 8 and 12.[8] According to a witness, "he dragged the boys by their hair and shot them in the mouth".[27] At least three of the child victims were killed by a single shot to the head of each.[24] The perpetrator burned some of the victims' bodies, an act that would be considered desecration under Islamic law.[28] Witnesses said that the corpses were shot in the head, stabbed, then the attacker gathered the eleven of those he killed in this home, including four girls younger than 6,[7] into one room and set the bodies on fire.[23][8][29] A pile of ashes lay on the floor of a room in one of the victims' houses and photographs show at least one child's body partially charred.[30][31] A reporter for The New York Times inspected the bodies that had been taken to the nearby American military base and confirmed seeing burns on some of the children's legs and heads.[7] [edit]Surrender and confession Following the events at Alkozai and Najeeban a U.S. soldier handed himself over into ISAF custody.[24] Afghan forces spotted him leaving his outpost before the massacre and U.S. commanders on base assembled their troops for a head count when it was discovered that the soldier was missing. A patrol was dispatched to find the missing soldier; it did not find him until the soldier turned himself in at the base after the massacre. He was reportedly taken into custody without incident. There were no other military operations being conducted in the area at the time.[32] The surveillance video from the base reportedly shows "the soldier walking up to his base covered in a traditional Afghan shawl. The soldier removes the shawl and lays his weapon on the ground, then raises his arms in surrender." [20] The video has not been released to the public. According to U.S. defense officials, upon his return to the base the soldier said three words: "I did it."[33] Then, according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the soldier "told individuals what happened".[33] Later the shooter retained a lawyer and refused to speak with investigators.[33] The United States flew the alleged shooter out of Afghanistan to Kuwait on 13 March 2012,[34][35] then to the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas on 16 March.[3] A Pentagon spokesman said this was done because of a "legal recommendation".[36] [edit]The number of assailants According to the U.S. authorities the attack was conducted by a single individual, U.S. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.[7] The U.S. military showed to Afghan authorities the footage from the surveillance video at the base as proof that there was only one perpetrator of the shootings.[20] The video shows the return of the alleged shooter to the base.[20] However, John Hudson of the National Journal noted that the U.S. embassy in Kabul seemed to open the possibility that additional accomplices could be involved, issuing a statement saying that "the individual or individuals responsible for this act will be identified and brought to justice."[18] According to Reuters, some neighbors and relatives of the dead saw a group of U.S. soldiers arrive at their village at about 2 a.m., enter homes and open fire.[37] "They were all drunk and shooting all over the place," said neighbor Agha Lala.[37] Some witnesses said that drunk American soldiers were laughing, while shooting.[38] According to The New York Times, one of the survivors from the attacks, Abdul Hadi, and "at least five other villagers" described seeing a number of soldiers, while some other Afghan residents described seeing only one gunman.[7] On 15 March 2012, an Afghan parliamentary probe team made up of several members of the National Assembly of Afghanistan announced that up to 20 American soldiers were involved in the killings.[1] They had spent two days in the province on site, interviewing the survivors and collecting evidence. One of the members of the probe team, Hamizai Lali, told the following: "We closely examined the site of the incident, talked to the families who lost their beloved ones, the injured people and tribal elders... The villages are one and a half kilometre from the American military base. We are convinced that one soldier cannot kill so many people in two villages within one hour at the same time, and the 16 civilians, most of them children and women, have been killed by the two groups."[1] Lali asked the Afghan government, the United Nations and the international community to ensure the perpetrators were punished in Afghanistan. While visiting one of the affected villages, Afgan President Hamid Karzai pointed to one of the villagers and said: "In his family, in four rooms people were killed – children and women were killed – and then they were all brought together in one room and then set on fire. That, one man cannot do."[39] A people that would and could throw the bums out in the voting booth never has to. - Prefrontal Vortex
Yep - the ole "lone gunman" at it once more. American soldiers raped several Afghan women before going on a shooting rampage that killed at least 16 civilians in the southern province of Kandahar, Press TV has learned. Shakila Hashemi, a member of an Afghan fact-finding committee, told Press TV in an exclusive interview on Saturday that up to 20 American soldiers were involved in the incident. The team of Afghan lawmakers spent two days collating reports from witnesses, survivors and inhabitants of the villages where the tragedy took place. RT
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams America: Israel's bitch
Pull all US troops entirely out of Afghanistan's lying snake pit, not just the villages. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#2. To: bluegrass (#0)
If not for the internet, much of the world would still be believing the BS official story.Subscribe to *Jack-Booted Thugs*
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#3. To: bluegrass (#0)
From Iran's PressTV:
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President Hamid Karzai on Thursday asked the US to pull out all its troops from Afghan villages in response to the killings.
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