What really stinks is that they are doing a darned good job witholding details on this alleged shooter, such as a basic military issue photograph, last name, physical description, race, etc. I would imagine going into the Pashto or Urdu based local press in Afghanistan for eyewitness accounts or something might yield, much more quickly than CNN or the DOD, what the story is on this guy. Something is fishy if they will not release those details. Arabic/Islamist (Nidal Hasan) type guy over sectarian issues? Black or other minority? Staged by Aghani disinformatizya as a premise to push out US troops all that faster?
I just don't know, and I would say anyone here might not know.
Having said that, in my research, I will say this: I saw local photos in some Afghan press that, because of their customs as differing from ours, would never see the light of day in the US and Western press, or would be blurred out. These were not blurred and were in full color.
If not staged, or a Reichstag fire to blame US troops, I can tell you with out a doubt that this in Kandahar was a most difficult scene to behold, especially of the little Afghani kids with half their heads' shot off and then bodies set afire like a barbeque--I guess they were just sleeping at the time. Too bad nobody got there (again if the charged is guilty) to have double tapped him ASAP and put him down on the spot. We are talking serious small Auschwitz and small Pol Pot/Killing Fields here, or a small Beslan. We are talking My Lai (Song My) village. Or, conversely, what the Vietcong or NVA did to what they considered traitors allied with the USA.
Look I know Islamofascists cutting off heads of "infidels" and suicide bombings have been horrendous as well. What I am saying is the crime scenes, if they are to be believed, are in one word "hell", and if this Sgt. in fact snapped or whatever and went and did these multiple acts, indeed, Lord have mercy on his soul, because certainly the Afghan people are not going to have any. Book it to the bank. I would NOT want to be a "round eye" in that place right about now.
I just realized I might have not been 100% sensitive to the fact that there may well be FReepers’ loved ones/relatives currently in the ‘Stan under extremely difficult circumstances now-as we speak, and of course I also have concern for their safety over this developing situation and the local reaction by Afghanis, and wish them (these US troops there for us) Godspeed, safe and successful completion of their mission, and safe quick return to the US and the ones they love here. Sorry about the choice of words and did not wish to worry anyone uncessarily about the increasing danger, with people out there in that place.
"If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly." -- Col. Kurtz (Marlon Brando), Apocalypse Now