I counted six stories Jerome Starkey wrote for AlterNet the notoriously leftest publication. Look into this guy. He could be another Reuters type set up or even working with local “runners”.
Rumsfeld's renegade unit blamed for Afghan deaths Special Forces group implicated in three incidents that claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent civilians / MarSOC was set up by former defence secretary despite opposition from within the Marine Corps By Jerome Starkey in Kabul
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/rumsfelds-renegade-unit-blamed-for-afghan-deaths-1685704.html