Friday, March 16, 2012

Lawyer: Soldier charged with the shootings was reluctant to go to the 4th deployment in Afghanistan

SEATTLE-the slaughter of 16 civilians in Afghanistan last weekend in the United States military, the accused had twice been injured in Iraq and was reluctant to leave during the trips to his fourth deployment, a lawyer said Thursday.

"He is as good as it gets, that information about the introduction of a second," said the lawyer, John Henry Browne. "He was told that he had not been, go to the back and then he was told he was going."

Browne said he has asked the representative of the military, the 38-year-old staff sergeant from the joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington State.

The military is in the Seattle area and asked Browne to represent, as he was, the lawyer said. Browne said he has reached the age of staff sergeant with the family, and if the military returned to the joint Base Lewis-McChord-in the next few days, he will travel to meet the military, where he is imprisoned.

Browne declined to release the name of the army landed.

"Everybody is concerned about the safety of his family, and that I am the beginning," Browne said.

The military is in the process of shooting at his base in the southern Afghan villages close to the rampage at the beginning of Sunday, killing nine children and seven other civilians and by then some of the institutions. Shooting, which followed the controversial Qur'an burning incident on the US troops, which has outraged the Afghan officials.

The suspect was flown out of Afghanistan on Wednesday evening to give details of the activities of the officials of the pretrial confinement in Kuwait to be. Condition of anonymity to speak to her father, the two officials are described in the, which has been in the armed forces of 11 years. He has served three tours in Iraq, and started his first deployment in Afghanistan in December.

Browne said he has a limited amount of information on his possible customer information. He described the military, such as the highly decorated and said he had been injured during deployments to Iraq twice, once in the head and once in the event of a serious injury, suffering, concussive leg injury.

Some reports have indicated that alcohol may have been a factor in shootings. Browne said that the military was aware of the family, he had not been drinking problem.

Colton Harris-Moore, Browne share capable of international attention as the "Hiroshima Bandit" and, more recently, aircraft, ships and cars from theft, the laws of the two-year run. Browne said he has to work with only three or four cases before the military. The military is also at least one military lawyer.

Medicinal products authority source, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the information, told the Associated Press that the suspect was in the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team before being assigned to the stability of the operation near the villages, the village where the attack took place.

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Gene Johnson can be reached at https://twitter.com/GeneAPseattle.


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