I agree with what you say above but neither will happen.He will be tried in a US military court slap on the wrist if even.Remember they said he had a brain injury so custodial sentence probaly off the cards too.

Like most armies serving in other countries (including the Irish defence forces) there are arrangements already in place for this kind of thing where if you commit a crime you’re automatically subject to your own nations military law (and also, in irelands case, civilian law) back home. It’s to guarantee both justice AND protection.

Agreed. Not the mention the fact that having the Americans try him will allow them to skate carefully around the fact that they armed a guy who had recently suffered a brain injury and sent him into a warzone.

From http://www.counterpunch.org under the article Obama’s delusions of sanctity

‘On official accounts, an American soldier left his base in the middle of the night, entered villagers’ homes, woke up Afghan families from sleep and shot his victims in cold blood. After committing the murders, the soldier was reported to have turned himself up to U.S. commanders, and was flown out of the country. He has since been named as St. Sgt. Robert Bales.

Other reports tell a different story, indicating that a group of soldiers was involved. Looking drunk and laughing, they engaged in an orgy of violence, while helicopters hovered above.



The massacre was committed in Kandahar, a province where NATO forces regularly carry out night raids on Afghan homes. They capture and kill men sweepingly described as Taliban, their supporters or sympathizers. Male family members therefore leave their homes at night to escape foreign forces. This explains why 9 of the 16 murdered were children. The rest included at least four women, and five Afghans were wounded. Several bodies were burned.

The massacre of Kandahar has echoes of My Lai––a village in South Vietnam where American troops massacred unarmed civilians including women, children and old people almost exactly 44 years ago, on March 16, 1968. The full horror of the My Lai massacre took time to surface, for many attempts were made to downplay it. Soldiers who had tried to stop the killings were denounced by U.S. Congressmen and received hate mail and death threats. It took thirty years before they were honored. Only one American soldier, Lieutenant William Calley, was punished. He spent just three years under house arrest, despite being given a life sentence’.

sorry to contradict you mark but are you saying the Afghanistan war is about freedom?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?pagewanted=all

http://centurean2.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/afghanistan-a-war-for-gas-and-oil-pipelines-2/