“They (Americans) poured chemicals over their dead bodies and burned them. I saw that all 11 of my relatives were killed, including my children and grandchildren.”-Samad Khan, witness and relative to the victims
Breaking reports out of Afghanistan. People are rioting because some Afghans say they caught U.S. led forces burning bodies. The witnesses say among the bodies there were at least four girls under the age of six being burned!
Kuwaiti media say they bodies are from the early morning shooting that took place on March 11, 2012. That’s when a U.S. soldier, or soldiers, open fired on an unarmed Afghan family in their home.
One of the witnesses to the burning of the bodies was the father of the girls being burned.
U.S. officials insist it was a lone renegade soldier, but witnesses say there was more than one U.S. soldier doing the shooting: “They were all drunk and shooting all over the place!”-Agha Lala, witness
Another witness said there was no provocation on their part: “No Taliban were here! No gun battle was going on! We don’t know why this foreign soldier came and killed our innocent family members! Either he was drunk or he was enjoying killing civilians!”-witness & relative to the victims
U.S. officials say the shooter is an Army Staff Sergeant from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, assigned to support special unit operations in Afghanistan. An Associated Press photographer confirmed some of the bodies had been burned.