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Afghans: US paid $50,000 per shooting spree death
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunday. The families of...
Tags: Government, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, NATO, Firearms
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Bales to face sanity review this weekend in Afghan massacre case
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 villagers and wounding six more in Afghanistan, will undergo a government sanity review this weekend to determine his mental state, his attorneys said. Bales...
Tags: Military Justice, Kandahar Massacre (2012), Bradley Manning, Courts-Martial, Murder
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Marine pleads guilty to urinating on Afghan corpses
A Marine who urinated on the corpses of Taliban fighters in a video seen worldwide pleaded guilty Wednesday to several charges at a court-martial at Camp Lejeune, N.C. Staff Sgt. Edward W. Deptola admitted desecrating the remains and posing with the...Tags: Judges, Armed Forces, Camp Lejeune (military base), Courts-Martial, Crime, Law and Justice
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Bales defers entering plea in Afghan massacre case
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 villagers in Afghanistan, deferred entering a plea when he appeared Thursday morning for his arraignment at a hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Seattle. A veteran of three tours in Iraq before...Tags: U.S. Army, Crime, Law and Justice, Mental Health, Iraq, Lawyers
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Afghan slaying: Defense depends on Sgt. Bales' mental health
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan, will undergo a sanity review before a mental health defense can be presented, a military judge decided Thursday. Col. Jeffery Nance ordered the review, a step in the ongoing...Tags: Judges, Mental Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Steroids
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Timeline: Deadly Mass Killings
A gunman at a Connecticut elementary school killed 26 people, including 20 children, on Friday. It is among the world's worst mass shootings. Here is a look at some others: The...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Lifestyle and Leisure, Business Enterprises, Kandahar Massacre (2012), Colin Ferguson
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Army seeks death for Sgt. Robert Bales in Afghan shooting rampage
SEATTLE -- The commanders at Joint Base Lewis-McChord have decided to refer the case against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for a general court-martial on charges that he murdered 16 civilians in a late-night shooting rampage outside a remote Army outpost...
Tags: Armed Forces, Police Investigations, Courts-Martial, Crime, Law and Justice, Mental Health
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Milwaukee sheriff: Cut 'green projects' for a cop in every school
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. does not much fancy all this talk of gun control. His idea: Put an armed officer in every school and public place. Clarke is no stranger to mass shootings. His county contains the suburb of Oak Creek, where...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Israel, Wade Michael Page, Interior Policy, Shootings
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Generals' indiscretions have real consequences for U.S. policy
Gens. John Allen and David Petraeus have been stupid in their misuse of technology, for a flirtation in the case of the former and an affair in the case of the latter ("Pieces of a puzzle," Nov. 14). As philanderers, these two men are abject failures, and...Tags: Government, Afghanistan, Armed Forces, Politics, Armed Conflicts
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Prosecutor urges court-martial trial, capital murder case against Bales
Los Angeles TimesA weeklong hearing in the case against U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales ended in a military courtroom Tuesday with defense attorneys declaring that “only one side of the story” has been heard. Bales faces charges on 16 counts of premeditated...Tags: Courts-Martial, Punishment
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Preliminary hearing ends in Afghan massacre case
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) — Army prosecutors on Tuesday asked an investigative officer to recommend a death penalty court-martial for a staff sergeant accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a predawn rampage, saying that Staff Sgt....
Tags: Military Justice, Police Investigations, Armed Forces, Courts-Martial, Crime, Law and Justice
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Sgt. Bales: 'You Guys Are Going to Thank me,' Soldiers Testify
Los Angeles TimesTACOMA, Wash. -- Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales told his fellow soldiers they would be grateful to him in fighting season “come June” following a shooting rampage in which he is accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians. “He said, ‘You guys are going to thank...Tags: Criminals, Hospitals and Clinics, Pregnancy and Childbirth, U.S. Army, Mental Health
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