{"id":29995,"date":"2012-05-17T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29995"},"modified":"2012-05-17T08:53:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T12:53:47","slug":"karzai-dismisses-evidence-of-single-shooter-in-bales-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29995","title":{"rendered":"Karzai dismisses evidence of “single shooter” in Bales massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"

McClatchy<\/a> interviews 14-year-old Rafiullah, a shooting victim in the SSG Robert Bales shooting incident. Rafiullah, who was shot at least three times by Bales that night in his grandmother’s home, claims that he saw and heard only one shooter;<\/p>\n

Rafiullah told McClatchy that Afghanistan\u2019s president, Hamid Karzai, phoned him in the aftermath of the attack and U.S. authorities later interviewed him while he was in the hospital. \u201cTwo times they talked to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A day or two after the massacre, he also spoke to the man Karzai had appointed as his chief investigator into the killings, Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, the Afghan army chief.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo all of them I said the same thing,\u201d Rafiullah said. \u201cI saw only one shooter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curiously, Karimi later backed the \u201cmultiple attacker\u201d theory, which was also advanced by Karzai, although Karimi subsequently acknowledged in an interview with McClatchy that Rafiullah and Sadiqullah had told him otherwise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curiously? Really? The Karzai government smells a big pay off…what’s curious about that? they want to cleave to theory that there are several more shooters out there, but they can’t bring themselves to admit that green-on-blue attacks are part of a strategy, despite the scores of incidents this year.<\/p>\n

A tall man with a graying beard and gnarled face, who gave his age as \u201cbetween 50 and 60,\u201d Naim said he felt abandoned by the Afghan government after the massacre. No government official had been to see him or to ask about his welfare.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey care only about themselves,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, but wait until you get your sack of money from the US government, Naim, you’ll get more attention from the Afghan government than you want. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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