U.S. SOLDIER KILLS 16 CIVILIANS, INCLUDING 9 CHILDREN

"Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children... igniting fears of a new wave of anti-American hostility... the sergeant was attached to a unit... called a village stabilization operation... to develop close ties with village elders... the soldier, who had walked more than a mile from his base, tried door after door, eventually breaking in to kill within three separate houses. At the first, the man gathered 11 bodies, including those of 4 girls younger than 6, and set fire to them... after a period of deepening public outrage, spurred by the Koran burning by American personnel last month and an earlier video showing American Marines urinating on dead militants, the apparently unprovoked killings added to a feeling of siege here among Western personnel..."
>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/world/asia/afghanistan-civilians-killed-american-soldier-held.html?_r=1&hp

"... The burning of the bodies may ignite even more outrage because it is seen as the desecration of corpses and therefore against Islam... Afghan officials and local villagers expressed doubt that a single U.S. soldier could have carried out all the killings in houses about a mile (2 kilometers) apart and burned the bodies afterward... "It is not possible for only one American soldier to come out of his base, kill a number of people far away, burn the bodies, go to another house and kill civilians there, then walk at least 2 kilometers and enter another house, kill civilians and burn them"... The Taliban vowed revenge..."
http://news.yahoo.com/taliban-vow-revenge-afghans-killed-us-troop-081654645.html