{"id":29157,"date":"2012-03-16T08:45:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T12:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29157"},"modified":"2012-03-16T08:46:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T12:46:03","slug":"killings-in-afghanistan-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29157","title":{"rendered":"Killings in Afghanistan updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone is speculating on the “motivations” that this staff sergeant had for killing 16 Afghans last Sunday morning, mostly because the Army isn’t saying much. Well, except for the report in the New York Times<\/a> that he was under the influence of alcohol, which, in case you didn’t know, is against regulations for soldiers deployed to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it all comes out, it will be a combination of stress, alcohol and domestic issues \u2014 he just snapped,\u201d said the official, who has been briefed on the investigation and who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the soldier has not yet been formally charged. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Associated Press<\/a> reports that, he had witnessed, the previous day, a fellow soldier be injured;<\/p>\n

Seattle attorney John Henry Browne told The Associated Press that according to his client’s family, the suspect was standing next to another U.S. soldier when that soldier was gravely injured.<\/p>\n

“We have been informed that at this small base that he was at, somebody was gravely injured the day before the alleged incident — gravely injured, and that affected all of the soldiers,” he said.<\/p>\n

Browne said his client had been reluctant to leave on his fourth deployment and surprised to be deployed to Afghanistan.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Associated Press<\/a> also reports that the seventh soldier in the last two weeks was murdered by an Afghan soldier at his post with a shot to the back of his head;<\/p>\n

Lance Cpl. Edward J. Dycus of Greenville, Miss., was shot in the back of the head on Feb. 1 while standing guard at an Afghan-U.S. base in the Marja district of Helmand province. The exact circumstances have not been disclosed, but the Dycus family has been notified that he was killed by an Afghan soldier. Marine officials discussed the matter on condition of anonymity because it is still under investigation.<\/p>\n

When the Pentagon announced Dycus’ death the day after the shooting, it said he died “while conducting combat operations” in Helmand. It made no mention of treachery, which has become a growing problem for U.S. and allied forces as they work closely with Afghan forces to wind down the war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, gee, I wonder why DoD wouldn’t list the reason for Dycus’ death. I guess we don’t want to highlight the fact that we’re chasing our tails in Afghanistan. That’s why neither the US command structure and our Afghan “allies” won’t admit that there’s an organized effort to convince Afghan Army members to murder American soldiers at their jobs.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Old Trooper for some of those links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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