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Bales on night of killings: "I thought I was doing the right thing"
http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/2012/11/05/on-eve-of-first-hearing-wife-of-soldier-accused-of-kandahar-massacre-insists-he-did-not-do-this/Bales on night of killings: "I thought I was doing the right thing"
Post by Adam Ashron
Nov 5, 2012
3:30 p.m. update: A peer of Staff Sgt. Robert Bales simply did not believe Bales when he made a 2 a.m. visit on March 11 saying he had shot Afghan villagers that night, and planned to leave their base a second time to kill more before sunrise.
"I''ve just been to Alkozai (a village) and I shot up some people," Bales told Sgt. Jason McLaughlin, McLaughlin testified today.
"No you didn't, Bob," McLaughlin replied.
A sleepy McLaughlin thought "it was ridiculously out of the realm of possibility," that Bales could have left Village Stability Platform Belambay that night to massacre Afghan civilians. That's why he didn't react when Bales returned to McLaughlin's room saying he intended to hit another village.
