[smoothsailing]

Thanks for the ping Girlene.

The news reports have been all over the place on this story.

It’s one soldier, it’s several soldiers, a helicopter was involved, shooting victims were burned after they were shot, it was drunk soldiers laughing as they were shooting. None of it makes any sense. Something stinks about this.

I’m reserving judgement just like we should with all such incidents until more factual information and hard evidence is known.

If it can be proven that the shooter acted alone without orders and not in selfdefense, then all bets are off. In the meantime, I’ll pray for the Sgt. and his family.

[Girlene]

Yes, there are a lot of inconsistencies in the reports.

Irenic's post highlights some thoughts in this FR thread, post 46

Now maybe some of these inconsistencies are due to Afghani statements which are not always trustworthy (the cousins at the second house saw two soldiers enter the house next door at 3 am, then they ran away????? What were they doing up at 3 am to look who was going in or out of their cousin's house?)

[jazusamo]

Thank you all for the pings and thank you FSE for the thread and your personal info.

I agree with Smooth, the info coming out so far is all over the place and I'll reserve judgment also for reliable facts to surface. Prayers for Sgt. Bales and his family.

Vel, the info so far sounds somewhat like McJerk wrote 6 years ago but I'm pretty sure he's not involved and I doubt the little weasel has it in him to go to Afghanistan.