Karzai blasts US over massacre probe: ‘I’m at the end of the rope’

Afghan President Hamid Karzai slams Washington for its lack of cooperation over the probe into the killing of 16 Afghan civilians who were shot by at least one US soldier on Sunday. Karzai says the US stance has put him “at the end of the rope.”

­President Karzai says the Afghan delegation he has sent to look into the incident has not received the cooperation Kabul expected from American officials, reports the Associated Press.

This has been going on for too long. This is by all means the end of the rope here,” Karzai said after meeting families of the civilians killed in the shooting spree.

During the meeting, the relatives of the deceased insisted there was more than one shooter and complained the Americans failed to provide all the information they requested.

Earlier, Kabul had said that there was surveillance video Washington was not willing to share with Afghan investigators.

According to NATO’s probe, only one soldier was behind the slaughter in southern Afghanistan. Various reasons are named behind the rampage: abuse of alcohol, combat trauma, and even a troubled marriage. For the time being, the 38-year-old Army staff sergeant, whose name is still withheld, has been relocated to a military base in Kuwait with a prospect of being sent back to the US.

But Afghan investigators are convinced that it takes more than one to kill so many people in two villages within one hour at the same time. Currently, they are considering the number of American soldiers involved into the massacre as 15 to 20, split into two groups.

The Afghan leader said he wanted to preserve good relations with Washington, but this is becoming increasingly difficult. The US should show more respect to Afghan culture and laws, he added.

This form of activity, this behavior, cannot be tolerated. It’s past, past, past the time,” says Karzai.

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