Thursday, August 22, 2013

Brother speaks warmly in court of American soldier in Afghan rampage

Courtroom sketch of Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales and attorney John Henry Browne during a pre-sentencing hearing in Tacoma Washington By Jonathan Kaminsky TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier who gunned down 16 Afghan civilians last year was an attentive father of two children and a duty-bound Army man before the attacks, his brother testified at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday. William Bales spoke warmly of his youngest brother, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, saying the former high school football player left a carefree bachelor life behind to enlist in the military in the aftermath of al Qaeda attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. ...








via Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/afghans-court-martial-describe-pain-massacre-u-soldier-014703207.html

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