Colonel, USAFR
It was reported in the Army times...not sure when. Looks legit...hope they fry ‘em if it’s true. Like we don’t have enough to work through....idiots.
I can’t get the link to work. I see the Daily Mail logo, but there’s no article.
Are they gay?
I’m dubious. It sounds more to me like one of the soldiers in the unit wants to paint himself as a hero for reporting atrocities.
Could be true though. If so, those men should be punished with all due severity.
So boo freakin' hoo to the handful of Afghan savages we killed. Who gives a crap. (At least with France we were saving one of the world's great culture. WTF are we saving in Afghanistan?)
Once something like this hits the muzzie world, it takes on a life of it's own, regardless of it's veracity. See, they want to believe it's true, they want to think the worst of us as it gives them (in their tiny, hate filled minds) more justification to commit acts of terror. Remember the rumors coming from Abu Graib (sp?) about guards flushing the Qu'ran down the toilet? It wasn't true, but it sparked rage and violence all over the middle east.
Yeah, well I’ll take this with a grain of salt and five years to sort it all out with.
These reports are generally worth about as much used toilet paper, and are about one thousand to one as likely to contain pretty much the same thing.
The fact that it isn't makes me think that the sources stink, and they don't want to get burned playing up massacres that didn't happen.
Here are some of the charge sheets. It doesn’t look good. Plus, I read another story (I’ll look for it) that claims one of the soldiers that was charged told his father about the problems several months earlier, and his father made contact with the Army stateside but didn’t get anywhere.
Here’s the other story...
http://www.military.com/news/article/army-warned-of-murder-plot-gis-father-says.html
If this happened as described, these “soldiers” are scum.
Funny that the press was all over the Haditha sham but is ignoring this. Protecting Obama?
I am too. It’s a bunch of sick BS.
Holmes is charged with murdering an Afghan civilian near the base where he was stationed in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province. He’s accused of throwing a grenade and shooting the civilian.
A magistrate ruled Holmes will remain in custody until his Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of a grand jury
More HERE
I checked to see if any of our JBER guys had any charges pending, found none...
Here we go again.
Disgraceful. I really hope this isn’t true, but that’s looking unlikely. All these ‘soldiers’ do is besmirch the good name of the US Army, which I consider (objectively, since I’m a Brit) the best in the world.
As for *some* of the comments on here, I truly despair. Events likes these make a very difficult job impossible. MURDER is MURDER is MURDER.
If this story was truly legit, it would be running 24/7 on MNDNC/NYTimes etc etc.