Bales has no memory of massacre
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March 21, 2012, Wednesday
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US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales remembers little about the night he is accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan civilians in a nighttime shooting rampage, his lawyer says.
Bales has a sketchy memory of events from before and after the killings but recalls very little or nothing of the time the military believes he went on a shooting spree through two Afghan villages, attorney John Henry Browne said after meeting his client for the first time.
Browne said Bales has "some memory of some things that happened" the night of the shootings.
Browne and other members of Bales' defense team have said they plan additional meetings this week with the soldier, who is being held at Fort Leavenworth.
More details have come to light about Bales' troubles on the home front. Records show he owes US$1.5 million from an arbitration ruling nearly a decade ago that found him guilty of securities fraud. A Columbus man alleged that Bales defrauded him and his wife while working as their stockbroker in 2003.
Bales, 38, has not been charged yet in the March 11 shooting spree, though charges could come this week. The killings sparked protests in Afghanistan, endangered relations between the two countries and threatened to upend American policy over the decade-old war.
Military officials have said that Bales, after drinking at a base, crept away to two villages overnight, shooting his victims and setting many of them on fire. Nine of the dead were children and 11 belonged to one family.
Bales has a sketchy memory of events from before and after the killings but recalls very little or nothing of the time the military believes he went on a shooting spree through two Afghan villages, attorney John Henry Browne said after meeting his client for the first time.
Browne said Bales has "some memory of some things that happened" the night of the shootings.
Browne and other members of Bales' defense team have said they plan additional meetings this week with the soldier, who is being held at Fort Leavenworth.
More details have come to light about Bales' troubles on the home front. Records show he owes US$1.5 million from an arbitration ruling nearly a decade ago that found him guilty of securities fraud. A Columbus man alleged that Bales defrauded him and his wife while working as their stockbroker in 2003.
Bales, 38, has not been charged yet in the March 11 shooting spree, though charges could come this week. The killings sparked protests in Afghanistan, endangered relations between the two countries and threatened to upend American policy over the decade-old war.
Military officials have said that Bales, after drinking at a base, crept away to two villages overnight, shooting his victims and setting many of them on fire. Nine of the dead were children and 11 belonged to one family.
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