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Bales to be charged with murder in Afghan killings
Associated PressArmy Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is expected to be told Friday he faces 17 counts of murder and six counts of attempted murder, along with other charges, in connection with a shooting rampage in two southern Afghanistan villages that shocked Americans back...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Hamid Karzai, Iraq, Prosecution, U.S. Military
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Lloyd Waters: Which wolf do we choose to feed?
As I read the newspaper and await the next horrific headline which details the sadistic behavior of one human against another human, I pause to study those characteristics of good and evil. Why are people prone to committing violent and shocking acts...Tags: Massacres, Seung-Hui Cho, Virginia Tech Massacre (2007), Health, Cancer
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Afghan woman recounts how US soldier killed her husband in rampage; case set for court-martial
Associated PressKANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told her side of what happened to her family...Tags: Witnesses, Prosecution, Steroids, Shootings, Punishment
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Bales to face sanity review this weekend in Afghan massacre case
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 villagers and wounding six more in Afghanistan, will undergo a government sanity review this weekend to determine his mental state, his attorneys said. Bales...
Tags: Prosecution, Bradley Manning, Military Justice, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Courts-Martial
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Marine pleads guilty to urinating on Afghan corpses
A Marine who urinated on the corpses of Taliban fighters in a video seen worldwide pleaded guilty Wednesday to several charges at a court-martial at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Staff Sgt. Edward W. Deptola admitted desecrating the remains and posing with the...Tags: Camp Lejeune (military base), Prosecution, Trials, Rebellions, Judges
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Bales defers entering plea in Afghan massacre case
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan, deferred entering a plea when he appeared Thursday morning for his arraignment at a hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Seattle. A veteran of three tours in Iraq before...Tags: Iraq, Witnesses, Prosecution, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Behavioral Conditions
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Afghan slaying: Defense depends on Sgt. Bales' mental health
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan, will undergo a sanity review before a mental health defense can be presented, a military judge decided Thursday. Col. Jeffery Nance ordered the review, a step in the ongoing...Tags: Steroids, Behavioral Conditions, Mental Health, Judges, Defense
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Timeline: Deadly Mass Killings
A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed 26 people, including 20 children, on Friday. It is among the world's worst mass shootings. Here is a look at some others: The...Tags: University of Arizona, Blacksburg, Virginia Tech, Personal Service, Northern Illinois University
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Army seeks death for Sgt. Robert Bales in Afghan shooting rampage
SEATTLE -- The commanders at Joint Base Lewis-McChord have decided to refer the case against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for a general court-martial on charges that he murdered 16 civilians in a late-night shooting rampage outside a remote Army outpost...
Tags: Prosecution, FBI, Behavioral Conditions, Steroids, Trials
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Milwaukee sheriff: Cut 'green projects' for a cop in every school
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. does not much fancy all this talk of gun control. His idea: Put an armed officer in every school and public place. Clarke is no stranger to mass shootings. His county contains the suburb of Oak Creek, where...
Tags: Wade Michael Page, Shootings, Israel, Personal Weapon Control, Politics
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Generals' indiscretions have real consequences for U.S. policy
Gens. John Allen and David Petraeus have been stupid in their misuse of technology, for a flirtation in the case of the former and an affair in the case of the latter ("Pieces of a puzzle," Nov. 14). As philanderers, these two men are abject failures, and...Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), National Government, Politics, Armed Forces, Armed Conflicts
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Prosecutor urges court-martial trial, capital murder case against Bales
Los Angeles TimesA weeklong hearing in the case against U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales ended in a military courtroom Tuesday with defense attorneys declaring that “only one side of the story” has been heard. Bales faces charges on 16 counts of premeditated...Tags: Courts-Martial, Punishment
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