Reality Check: Is the U.S. Military Conducting An "Information Blackout" For Massacre

[Tyler_Durden]

http://www.fox19.com/story/17326578/reality-check-is-the-us-military-conducting-an-information-blackout-for-soldier-in-afghanistan-massacre

Ben is such a badass


tube:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gI9IEgXT3M

[sailingaway]

He is.

[FSP-Rebel]

One man wrecking crew

[sailingaway]

Yeah. this really goes in General Politics, though...

[DEGuy]

This should be a headline on Drudge.

[Tyler_Durden]

Yeah. this really goes in General Politics, though...

I know SCOTUSman, I mean sailingaway. :D

All my Swann threads sprout in GRC as sort of an homage. I knew you'd file it in the right place for me. :)

[Jingles]

How did this guy get a job doing what he does in the media? He just destroys the media narrative with facts everyday.

[kcchiefs6465]

Where does FOX19 air?

EDIT: Cincinatti. A damn shame I don't pick it up.

[Constitutional Paulicy]

I know SCOTUSman, I mean sailingaway. :D

LOL ;)

[Tyler_Durden]

How did this guy get a job doing what he does in the media? He just destroys the media narrative with facts everyday.


www.raycommedia.com

[Feelgood]

Ben is going to end up catching a bullet to the head... :eek:

[moderate libertarian]

There seem to have been verious distraction stories planted probably by a nervous Obama handlers and reelection planners but hard to cover up in the long run.

There is a breaking development in latest Afghan massacre investigation. NATO officers are still denying Afghan claims that multiple killers were involved in massacre of civilians including 9 children and women in different villages but now suggest that Sgt Bales did the first killings, came back to base and then went out to another village and did second massacre.



Officials: Bales may have carried out separate Afghan killings

WASHINGTON — U.S. investigators believe the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians split the slaughter into two episodes, returning to his base after the first attack and later slipping away to kill again, two American officials said Saturday.

This scenario seems to support the U.S. government’s assertion — contested by some Afghans — that the killings were done by one person, since they would have been perpetrated over a longer period of time than assumed when Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was detained March 11 outside his base in southern Afghanistan.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/us-investigators-believe-accused-us-soldier-carried-out-separate-afghan-killings/2012/03/24/gIQAyzsHYS_story.html

[Tyler_Durden]

There seem to have been verious distraction stories planted probably by a nervous Obama handlers and reelection planners but hard to cover up in the long run.

There is a breaking development in latest Afghan massacre investigation. NATO officers are still denying Afghan claims that multiple killers were involved in massacre of civilians including 9 children and women in different villages but now suggest that Sgt Bales did the first killings, came back to base and then went out to another village and did second massacre.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/us-investigators-believe-accused-us-soldier-carried-out-separate-afghan-killings/2012/03/24/gIQAyzsHYS_story.html

You see this in the comments of the article you posted??? I wasn't even aware of this incident.




"I'm reminded of an incident about 18 months ago in which US forces claimed to have discovered 5 bodies including 3 women mutilated with knives by the Taliban. They later had to admit that they'd shot the women themselves, and their husbands - a police chief and district commissioner - in a bungled raid on the wrong house. The knife wounds were US special forces trying to dig out their own bullets. They were also the ones who tied the dead women in chairs. *
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Immediately after the killings, ISAF put out a press release entitled: Joint force operating in Gardez makes gruesome discovery *
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http://www.dvidshub.net/news/45240/joint-force-operating-gardez-makes-gruesome-discovery#ixzz1pgisfIV5 *
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"An Afghan-international security force found the bound and gagged bodies of three women during an operation in the Gardez district, Paktiya province last night.*
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The joint force went to a compound near the village of Khatabeh, after intelligence confirmed militant activity. Several insurgents engaged the joint force in a fire fight and were killed. Subsequently, a large number of men, women, and children exited the compound and were detained by the joint force. When the joint force entered the compound they conducted a thorough search of the area and found the bodies of three women who had been tied up, gagged and killed. The bodies had been hidden in an adjacent room."*
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The alleged firefight, like the one claimed in the Marines' press release after Haditha, was completely fictional. The dead "insurgents" were the police chief and his brother, the women's husbands, who had never fired a shot. *
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ISAF apologised and admitted everything after the press and Afghan investigators pulled their story to bits. Of course the US public never really heard about it, though it did actually make the pages of the NYT. *
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/world/asia/05afg...*
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I'm not saying that's what happened here. I'm only saying that ISAF's assurances are meaningless and its credibility is zero. Their side of the story carries less weight than a single 6-year-old Afghan eyewitness."

[moderate libertarian]

No I didn't see thar, sadly not too surprising. Fake staging killed civilians is not too uncommon apparently. This was in news few days ago.


Court upholds conviction of Marine in killing of unarmed Iraqi
March 24, 2012 | 9:32 am

Hutchins is one of eight troops accused of dragging a retired Iraqi police officer from his home, throwing him in a hole, killing him, and then telling superiors that he had been killed in a firefight. Hutchins, now 27, was a sergeant and, as the squad leader, was the senior Marine involved in the plot.

Of the eight defendants, dubbed the Pendleton 8 by their supporters, only Hutchins is still behind bars. None of the others served more than 18 months. A court-martial jury at Camp Pendleton convicted Hutchins of unpremeditated murder and conspiracy.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/court-upholds-marine-killing-conviction.html