03-16-2012, 06:33 PM
this just broke. no photo yet.
he's back in U.S.
Military sources identify the suspect in the shooting deaths of 16 Afghan civilians as Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.
The soldier was being flown Friday to the U.S. military's only maximum-security prison, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, sources said. The move to the U.S. does not necessarily mean an announcement of formal criminal charges is imminent, a defense official told The Associated Press.
Bales is a 38-year-old staff sergeant, husband, father of two young children and a veteran who was in the midst of his fourth tour in a war zone.
His attorney, John Henry Browne, said the sergeant is originally from the Midwest but now lives near Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. His children are 3 and 4.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/...z1pK2KSlYQ
he's back in U.S.
Military sources identify the suspect in the shooting deaths of 16 Afghan civilians as Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.
The soldier was being flown Friday to the U.S. military's only maximum-security prison, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, sources said. The move to the U.S. does not necessarily mean an announcement of formal criminal charges is imminent, a defense official told The Associated Press.
Bales is a 38-year-old staff sergeant, husband, father of two young children and a veteran who was in the midst of his fourth tour in a war zone.
His attorney, John Henry Browne, said the sergeant is originally from the Midwest but now lives near Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. His children are 3 and 4.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/...z1pK2KSlYQ