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The Strange Case of Sergeant Bales: Enemy Agent in the Ranks?
By Cliff Kincaid
Accuracy in Media
March 26, 2012
We are told that Sergeant Robert Bales navigated his way through Taliban-infested areas and killed 17 Afghan civilians, including women and toddlers. Then he took time out from shooting to stack up several of the bodies and light them on fire. One might expect that such a shooter would be running from any angry mob who identified this obvious intruder in their midst, if not be pinned down in a battle with the local Taliban. Instead, we are told that he walked back alone and calmly surrendered.
How could he have done this by himself? And how could the most horrific case of mass murder committed by a U.S. soldier since Fort Hood just be a case of too much war stress?
Claims that he suffered from PTSD or a brain injury do not square with the methodological approach that he apparently took in the killings. This was not a madman going berserk. The rampage had the earmarks of somebody programmed or manipulated to kill, with the killings and the aftermath being carefully orchestrated by those in on the secret of what actually happened.
Bales’ lawyer claims he “does not remember everything” from the day of the shootings, and that he has not actually confessed. ...
Remainder of article @ http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-strange-case-of-sergeant-bales-enemy-agent-in-the-ranks/
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence |
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