U.S. Army criminal investigators could not reach the scene of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales’ alleged massacre in Kandahar Province’s Panjwai District for three weeks because Afghan and American leaders considered the area too dangerous for them to show their faces.
In between, Afghans living in the four compounds Bales allegedly attacked withdrew their belongings and scraped away smatterings of blood to clean up their homes, according to an Army Criminal Investigative Command agent.
Read more here: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/2012/11/07/day-3-in-court-for-ssg-robert-bales-set-up-with-dna-firearm-experts/
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