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March 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The trooper is accused of walking off a US military base with his 9mm pistol and M-4 rifle, which was outfitted with a grenade launcher, before dawn on March 11, killing nine Afghan children and eight adults and burning some of the bodies.
The maximum punishment for a premeditated murder conviction is death, dishonorable discharge from the Armed Forces, reduction to the lowest enlisted grade, and total forfeiture of pay and allowances, said Col. Gary Kolb, a spokesman for the US forces in Afghanistan.
The 38-year-old trooper, who had been on his fourth combat tour overseas, is detained at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, despite calls by the furious families of the victims for the proceedings to be held in Afghanistan.
Six other Afghans — a man, a woman, and four children — were also wounded in the Panjwai district of Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan — where the murders took place, Kolb said.
Bales has been charged with six counts of attempted murder and six counts of assault in those cases, he disclosed.
Witnesses as well as an Afghan fact-finding mission say up to 20 soldiers were involved in the slaughter of the civilians, believed to be the deadliest by the US-led forces during the decade-plus-long US-led occupation of Afghanistan.
The killings were yet another blow to the US-Afghan relations following a series of atrocities, including the burning of the Holy Qur’an and other Islamic materials at the US-run Bagram Airbase in northern Afghanistan earlier in the year.
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