{"id":29323,"date":"2012-03-30T07:56:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T11:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29323"},"modified":"2012-03-30T08:11:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T12:11:15","slug":"was-bales-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29323","title":{"rendered":"Was Bales alone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/worldnews.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2012\/03\/29\/10927844-child-witnesses-to-afghan-massacre-say-robert-bales-was-not-alone\">MSNBC<\/a> who tries to muddy the waters surrounding the SSG Robert Bales discussion with the testimony of a child witness who charges that there were twenty or so soldiers with Bales when he committed murder in the Afghanistan village a few weeks back;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne man entered the room and the others were standing in the yard, holding lights,\u201d Noorbinak said in the video.<\/p>\n<p>A brother of one victim told Hakim that his brother\u2019s children mentioned more than one soldier wearing a headlamp. They also had lights at the end of their guns, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t know whether there were 15 or 20, however many there were,\u201d he said in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Army officials have repeatedly denied that others were involved in the massacre, emphasizing that Bales acted alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A child&#8217;s testimony is virtually useless, since they&#8217;re more likely to talk about their impressions of the events and their impressions are distorted by their lack of experience in realty. Afghanistan children are habitual liars, according to people I&#8217;ve talked to in regards to this instance. They often repeat lies that are spoon-fed to them by adults. <\/p>\n<p>But what makes me disbelieve the story most is that Bales&#8217; lawyer would have said something about it by now since he&#8217;s seized on every other excuse for his client in the last week or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff sends us a link to MSNBC who tries to muddy the waters surrounding the SSG &hellip; <a title=\"Was Bales alone?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29323\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Was Bales alone?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}