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Apparently he left the base, started to shoot civilians indiscriminately and then returned to base and got arrested.
Estimates of civilian deaths go from 3 to 16.
More reasons for Afghanis to riot 
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AP posted:
KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier has been detained in Afghanistan for shooting and wounding several civilians in southern province Kandahar, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) coalition said on Sunday.
"It was a shooting incident involving multiple civilians wounded," said the spokesman, Captain Justin Brockhoff, adding that there were no initial reports of deaths in the attack which took place on Sunday.
Civilian casualties have been a major source of friction between President Hamid Karzai's government and U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.
http://news.yahoo.com/soldier-detained-afghanistan-over-civilian-casualties-060915360.html
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I expect at least 2 weeks of home detainment punishment
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Crap. Everyone get the eff out. We lost.
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I've been telling you guys for 2 full years we were losing. We lost in fall 2009 when they scrap the old plan.
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NuEM posted:
Crap. Everyone get the eff out. We lost.
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How one soldier can go AWOL from a military base in full gear and rifle full of hard ammo without anyone noticing is beyond me.
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Should have been out of that shithole 7 years ago. You keep people in a war zone for half their lives and some of them are going to crack.
It's over, done, let the Afghan people deal with their horrible country. They DID assist the bastards that attacked us, screw em.
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Ptilk posted:
Should have been out of that shithole 7 years ago. You keep people in a war zone for half their lives and some of them are going to crack.
It's over, done, let the Afghan people deal with their horrible country. They DID assist the bastards that attacked us, screw em.
One of those rare things on which Ptilk and I agree.
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Women AND kids!?
AHHAHHAHAHAHA
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Ptilk posted:
Should have been out of that shithole 7 years ago. You keep people in a war zone for half their lives and some of them are going to crack.
It's over, done, let the Afghan people deal with their horrible country. They DID assist the bastards that attacked us, screw em.
Pretty much this.
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Moe_Nox posted:
I've been telling you guys for 2 full years we were losing. We lost in fall 2009 when they scrap the old plan.
We had a great plan for Afghanistan before Obama took office? That's pretty funny!
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You can take that to the bank!
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Jesus ****ing Christ gtfo of there already
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For those not keeping up, my first link was wrong:
Washington Post posted:
U.S. soldier held after firing on Afghans, killing at least 16, officials say
The attack marked perhaps the grisliest act by a U.S. soldier in the decade-long Afghan war and seemed all but certain to stoke anti-American anger in a crucial battleground as foreign troops start to thin out in the south. Afghan officials said women and children were among those killed in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban movement.
Coming as Afghan rage over last month’s burning of Korans by U.S. soldiers was beginning to taper off, the killings threatened to spark a new crisis in the strained relationship between Washington and Kabul. The two nations are in the midst of contentious negotiations over an agreement that could extend the presence of U.S. troops in the country beyond 2014.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-soldier-detained-after-opening-fire-on-afghans/2012/03/11/gIQAFFlW4R_story.html
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Altra_Shadowstalker posted:
For those not keeping up, my first link was wrong:
Washington Post posted:
U.S. soldier held after firing on Afghans, killing at least 16, officials say
The attack marked perhaps the grisliest act by a U.S. soldier in the decade-long Afghan war and seemed all but certain to stoke anti-American anger in a crucial battleground as foreign troops start to thin out in the south. Afghan officials said women and children were among those killed in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban movement.
Coming as Afghan rage over last month’s burning of Korans by U.S. soldiers was beginning to taper off, the killings threatened to spark a new crisis in the strained relationship between Washington and Kabul. The two nations are in the midst of contentious negotiations over an agreement that could extend the presence of U.S. troops in the country beyond 2014.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-soldier-detained-after-opening-fire-on-afghans/2012/03/11/gIQAFFlW4R_story.html
Still sparks the question...how can lone soldier leave guarded military compound, in full gear and armed to teeth without anyone asking a question?
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Moe_Nox posted:
I've been telling you guys for 2 full years we were losing. We lost in fall 2009 when they scrap the old plan.
Afghanistan is by default a loosing proposition...
However, the whole - focus on Iraq thing never helped. The Afghan plan needed to be changed up - Just like Iraq was a disaster until Petraeus came in and said this is how it's gonna go down. Once we started focusing more on Afghanistan we had to change up the plan. I think the 'new' strategy would have worked a bit better if that's what we did when we first went in, but not so much as a 'plan b'. It's just never a good thing having troops in another country actively engaging 'the enemy' for a decade and not having a 'plan'.
Be all that as it may, We've been there, we made out point, we've killed OBL, pretty much killed all of the Taliban leaders that initially supported OBL and Al Queada... Eff em - let them have their shit, let Pakistan do whatever they effing want and when they start up more real shit like 9/11, go eff em up some more...
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I feel for the victims.
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To be perfectly honest. I'm happy it happened over there and not here. Shitty, i know.
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Testerion posted:
Still sparks the question...how can lone soldier leave guarded military compound, in full gear and armed to teeth without anyone asking a question?
According to CNN, it wasn't unknown that he went missing. They were out looking for him, probably around the time he was offing people and then he just walked back to the base and was arrested.
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Ptilk posted:
Should have been out of that shithole 7 years ago. You keep people in a war zone for half their lives and some of them are going to crack.
It's over, done, let the Afghan people deal with their horrible country. They DID assist the bastards that attacked us, screw em.
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The question shouldnt be how this happened... it should be how did we prevent it for 10 years.
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This kind of crap happens. War can unwrap you.
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Though it says something about the war when psychos who enlist just to kill people have to go out of their way in search for illegit kills because theres no legit targets available.
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Well, at least it was one isolated case of lunatic guy and not
conspiracy by more than 1 soldier 
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They need to test better to screen out the people who like to kill.
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__Bonk__ posted:
They need to test better to screen out the people who like to kill.
The screenings are fine... how many tours had the guy gone through, how many years did he watch buddies blown up and shot... how much death and mayham and chaos can you live through before you become it.
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I thought I heard on the news that he had a nervous breakdown at some time previously.
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Ya true but he murdered women and children. Its so horrible I cant even imagine it.
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Screening was good, he was very efficient
If everyone wouldn't say he was alone, I'd think there
were more soldiers involved
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Generally, it's not the war itself that pushes guys over the edge, it's their wives leaving them for the guy they have been screwing while he was over there fighting that does.
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"Is this what the Americans call an assistance force? They are beasts and have no humanity. The Taliban are much better than them."
Says the witness...crazy Afghans
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You are probably right Ptilk. He was having problems in his marriage at home I heard.
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