US Soldier kills 16 innocent people.

Is it not more than one guy now?

 

All we know is that one person has been detained by NATO forces for going on a shooting rampage.

We don't know anything else so lets not pretend that we do.

 

This is awful.

But with all the propaganda their soldiers get fed out there about "sand-*" etc, it would almost be surprising if you didn't see one or two psychologically-disturbed people follow that dehumanisation thru to its logical conclusion.

That's part of war. And we in the UK are far from avoiding complicity in that. How many times in a row did we vote in Tony Blair?

 

REUTERS


Reuters) - Western forces shot dead 16 civilians including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, in a rampage that witnesses said was carried out by American soldiers who were laughing and appeared drunk.
One Afghan father who said his children were killed in the shooting spree accused soldiers of later burning the bodies.
Witnesses told Reuters they saw a group of U.S. soldiers arrive at their village in Kandahar's Panjwayi district at around 2 am, enter homes and open fire.
The incident, one of the worst of its kind since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, is likely to deepen the divide between Washington and Kabul.
The U.S. embassy in Kabul said an American soldier had been detained over the shooting. It added that anti-U.S. reprisals were possible following the killings, which come just weeks after U.S. soldiers burned copies of the Koran at a NATO base, triggering widespread anti-Western protests.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the rampage as "intentional murders" and demanded an explanation from the United States. His office said the dead included nine children and three women.
An Afghan minister earlier told Reuters that a lone U.S. soldier had killed up to 16 people when he burst into homes in villages near his base in the middle of the night.
Panjwayi district is about 35 km (22 miles) west of the provincial capital Kandahar city. The district is considered the spiritual home of the Taliban and is believed to be a hive of insurgent activity.
Haji Samad said 11 of his relatives were killed in one house, including his children. Pictures showed blood-splattered walls where the children were killed.
"They (Americans) poured chemicals over their dead bodies and burned them," a weeping Samad told Reuters at the scene.
"I saw that all 11 of my relatives were killed, including my children and grandchildren," said Samad, who had left the home a day earlier.
Neighbors said they awoke to crackling gunfire from American soldiers, whom they described as laughing and drunk.
"They were all drunk and shooting all over the place," said neighbor Agha Lala, who visited one of the homes where the incident took place. "Their bodies were riddled with bullets."
A senior U.S. defense official said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "was deeply saddened to hear last night of this incident and is closely monitoring reports out of Afghanistan." The White House also expressed concern.
The Afghan Taliban would take revenge for the deaths, the group said in an e-mailed statement to media.
U.S.-AFGHAN TIES LIKELY TO PLUNGE FURTHER
The U.S. embassy in Kabul said an investigation was under way into Sunday's shooting and that "the individual or individuals responsible for this act will be identified and brought to justice".
The commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) General John Allen said he was "shocked and saddened" by the shooting, and promised a rapid investigation.
The Minister of Border and Tribal Affairs Asadullah Khalid, who is investigating the incident, said the soldier entered three homes, killing 11 people in the first one.
"The defense minister ... is deeply shocked and saddened by the killings of 15 innocent civilians and the wounding of nine more at the hands of the coalition forces," the Defense Ministry in Kabul said in a statement.
Civilian casualties have been a major source of friction between Karzai's Western-backed government and U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.
The shootings could intensify friction between Washington and Kabul as NATO prepares to hand over all security responsibilities to Afghans by the end of 2014, a process which has already started.
The Koran burning and the violence that followed, including a spate of deadly attacks against U.S. soldiers, tested brittle ties between the governments of Karzai and President Barack Obama and underscored the challenges that the West faces even as it moves to withdraw.
All foreign combat troops will withdraw by end-2014 from a costly war that has become increasingly unpopular.

 

Jail is too good for * like this.

Totally disgusting and he should be gassed/injected/hanged or face the firing squad,society is much better without animals like this sitting in prison.

 

Dunno mate. My assumption was that he'd be tried in a military court in America since he was on official army deployment. It's only an assumption though. Have other soldiers been tried in the nation that the crime was committed?

 

Coward

 

It's be more appropriate for him to face war crime charges in some place neutral like in front of the International Criminal Court. A military or civilian trial in either the USA or Afghanistan lends itself to politicalisation.

 

Well it’s quite obvious isn’t it?

Natives attack the Anglo-Saxon hordes who have invaded their land and slaughtered their people.

 

Of course, but I'm not that it works that way.

 

Horrible, but not exactly surprising.

 

the guy was obviously insane and someone dropped the ball by not getting him out of the army and into a hospital early on, that being said he will spend the rest of his life in prison and thats only if he doesnt get the death penalty

R.I.P. to those poor Innocent people who were murdered

 

Thinking it over and looking into the story I think he will be executed

 

Good.


Why do you think this ?

 

after went on with the Koran burnings the government is looking to crack down on this, and while I have always been against the death penalty I will no feel bad about this guy being executed, deranged piece of *

 

The American army in Afganistan is probably the biggest recruitment tool for the taliban
RIP those poor people

 

People who get caught committing war crimes tend to end up that way.

 

terrible news, absolute tragic. R.I.P.


theres some grade A * on this forum by the way.

 

Throw him to the people to be executed

 

r.i.p, horrible news