In Afghanistan, a 38-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant assigned to support Green Beret village-stabilization operations turned himself in after killing sixteen villagers, nine of them children, in the middle of the night, then setting fire to eleven of the corpses, including those of four girls under the age of six. “He came to my uncle’s home, he was running after women, he was tearing their dresses, insulting them,” said a 15-year-old boy who reported being shot in the leg. “He killed my uncle and killed our servant and killed my grandma. He shot dead my uncle’s son, his daughter.” Hundreds of Afghans protested the murders outside Camp Belambay, Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament issued a statement saying Afghans had “run out of patience” with foreign forces, and President Hamid Karzai called the attacks “unforgivable.” Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reiterated his call for Karzai to apologize for attacks on U.S. soldiers following the burning of Korans outside a NATO base last month. “It’s got to be a two-way street,” said Gingrich.
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In Afghanistan, a 38-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant assigned to support Green Beret village-stabilization operations turned himself in after killing sixteen villagers, nine of them children, in the middle of the night, then setting fire to eleven of the corpses, including those of four girls under the age of six. “He came to my uncle’s home, he was running after women, he was tearing their dresses, insulting them,” said a 15-year-old boy who reported being shot in the leg. “He killed my uncle and killed our servant and killed my grandma. He shot dead my uncle’s son, his daughter.” Hundreds of Afghans protested the murders outside Camp Belambay, Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament issued a statement saying Afghans had “run out of patience” with foreign forces, and President Hamid Karzai called the attacks “unforgivable.” Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reiterated his call for Karzai to apologize for attacks on U.S. soldiers following the burning of Korans outside a NATO base last month. “It’s got to be a two-way street,” said Gingrich.