Posted on 03/15/2012 7:43:22 PM PDT by Mariner
SEATTLE (AP) - A Seattle attorney who represented a teenage thief known as the "Barefoot Bandit" said Thursday he has been asked to represent the U.S. soldier accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians last weekend.
John Henry Browne told The Associated Press the 38-year-old staff sergeant is from the Seattle area and asked to be represented by him when he was taken into custody. Brown, a prominent Seattle defense lawyer, said he has met with the sergeant's family, and unless the soldier is returned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the next few days, he will travel to meet the soldier wherever he is in custody.
Browne declined to release the soldier's name, which the Army has withheld.
"Everybody is worried about the safety of his family, and I am honoring that," Browne said.
(Excerpt) Read more at komonews.com ...
The only thing that keeps me going is knowing that the sorry bastards that put people such as obma in the White House will eventually get done in by obama.
I despise obama voters more every day.
The likely reason for this is to protect his family here in the states.
I would imagine because your government has welcomed in, tens of thousands of Muslims, and continues to do so.
You have my utmost respect. And thank you for your service
Can you expand on the cause of the resentment toward the American public?
I know your history kid
You have more than proven yourself
I am proud of you
I know a lot of Draftees who cared and worked hard. Do you have a special resentment to Draftees?
The story stinks to high heavens. A few lines from one story...
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“Sunday’s shooting rampage began in Balandi, a village about 1.5 kilometers (nearly a mile) south of the base.”
“Eleven were from one family. Five other people were wounded.”
“Two who lost relatives insisted that not one — but at least two — soldiers took part in the shootings.”
“Mohammad Wazir told the delegation that he was out of town when 11 of his relatives were slain at his house about 2:30 a.m.”
“It was the closing scene of a massacre that left 16 civilians, including nine children, dead in two villages in southern Kandahar province.”
“He said his sister told him that she heard gunfire and saw at least two soldiers firing inside their walled compound before she ran to hide in the kitchen of her uncle’s home nearby.”
“After the killings in Balandi, south of the base, four other people were gunned down in the village of Alkozai, about 1 kilometer (less than a mile) north of the base.”
“Sayed Jan said he was in the nearby city of Kandahar where he does construction work when the shooting occurred shortly before 3 a.m. at his house in Alkozai. He told the delegation that his cousins next door saw two men enter the house and gun down four people. The cousins ran to safety.”
“Marine Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, said Monday in Washington that an Afghan soldier on guard duty reported seeing a U.S. soldier walk off the base. That report prompted a head count, which revealed that the staff sergeant was missing. A search party was organized, but others on the base could not find the missing soldier before the attacks occurred, Allen said.”
“Members of the Afghan delegation investigating the killings said one Afghan guard working from midnight to 2 a.m. saw a U.S. soldier return to the base around 1:30 a.m. Another Afghan soldier who replaced the first and worked until 4 a.m. said he saw a U.S. soldier leaving the base at 2:30 a.m. It’s unknown whether the Afghan guards saw the same U.S. soldier.”
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/students-protest-us-soldier-killed-afghans-15907521
Seriously, think about some of it...it does NOT make sense.
The timing of leaving base (and how does one just leave base with weapons and a fair amount of ammo and it is only Afghan guards guarding?).
The time the US soldier is supposedly seen leaving base, the camp check, the timing of the killings (phone calls received by out of town relative would verify that timeline) He walks a mile South to a town, kills, burns, then walks a mile or so North to a town and kills. They appear targeted at particular families, oddly, ones where men are *out of town*?
There is TOO much that doesn’t add up...we are missing a bunch of information here and what we do have, stinks.
I call B/S. The more you reply the more revealing troll you are.
IBTZ!!!!!
Well you have more information than I do then. The only thing I've read is "unnamed soldier".
I’ve read enough (at Blackfive) to question the character of Michael Yon.
Sorry if I don’t believe someone who just signed up yesterday.
What are they saying?
It’s been a long time since I looked at BlackFive. IIRC they were poo-poohing the eligibility issue and lost credibility with me. But I might not be remembering that correctly. And even if I am remembering correctly there could be reasons they poo-poohed the eligibility issue - just like the media had reasons (they were threatened with loss of job and possible death for them and their families if they reported on the issue). So it’s hard to judge credibility these days.
Is Michael Totten still doing war reporting?
I’m gonna reserve judgment also. After Haditha, there’s just no other reasonable response. We have no idea what really happened, or whether we will ever know the truth about it.
Amen!
He’s not a Muslim.
Here’s one:
BLACKFIVE: Michael Yon goes full batshit crazy http://www.blackfive.net/main/2011/09/michael-yon-goes-full-batshit-crazy.html
Here’s a Google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=blackfive+michael+yon&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
It appears Yon was kicked off of at least 4 embeds. There seems to be a problem or two.
Don’t know the answer on Michael Totten.
Are you saying that draftees didn't do the job in the Civil War? How about World Wars I and II? Korea? Vietnam?
You do know that you sound like a British general circa 1776 pooh-poohing the American militia, don't you?
The draft served us well for many years and if not for the anti-military attitude of libs in the '70s would be serving us still.
Wasn't the so-called Greatest Generation composed almost entirely of draftees?
Do you have any idea what the post-Vietnam Army was like? I’ve heard many horror stories from the old-timers.
A volunteer military is unquestionably superior. Only a fool would want to go backwards.
I could be wrong (as has so often happened in the past), but I always thought that with the Militia Act still in force that a draft was merely the calling-up of the unorganized militia.
If he murdered 16 people then execution is right and proper, regardless of his prior service.
There are anti-military officers serving now, that's nothing new.
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