Breaking News: U.S. soldier Robert Bales sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole over Afghan rampage
U.S. soldier sentenced to life in prison over Afghan rampage
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BREAKING UPDATE: U.S. Army soldier Robert Bales sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole over Afghan rampage @Reuters
U.S. soldier sentenced to life in prison over Afghan rampage
TACOMA, Washington |
(Reuters) - A U.S. military jury
sentenced an American soldier to life in prison without the possibility
of parole on Friday for killing 16 Afghan civilians on their family
compounds in a nighttime rampage last year, according to a verdict read
in court.Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has admitted to slaughtering the villagers, mostly women and children, in attacks in Kandahar province in March 2012.
US soldier apologizes for massacre of 16 Afghans
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Raging on steroids, fear and insecurity, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales threw himself into one of life's great stress relievers: chopping wood. He sawed and hacked from morning till almost dusk, attacking a large tree he and his soldiers had laid low near their remote outpost in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. It wasn't enough. Hours later, after drinking with his buddies, the soldier outfitted himself with a 9 mm pistol and an M-4 rifle, and headed out in the middle of the night to commit one of the worst atrocities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — the slaughter of 16 men, women and children in two nearby villages. Some screamed for mercy. Others didn't even have a chance to get out of bed. For the first time, Bales apologized for the attack Thursday as he addressed six jurors determining whether his life sentence will include the possibility of parole. Responding to gentle questioning from one of his defense attorneys, Emma Scanlan, the 40-year-old said h ...bigstory.ap.org
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