THE FACTS FOR OR AGAINST STAFF SERGEANT ROBERT BALES.

In a blog post last March, Karilyn Bales wife of Staff sergeant Robert Bales wrote: "Well we found out yesterday that Bob did not get promoted to E7 this year. It is very disappointed after all of the work Bob has done and all the sacrifices he has made for his love of his country."

Because of monetary problems their family home had been placed on the market just days prior to the attack, it has now been taken off the market since the attack.

On July 2002, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales received a deferred sentence for a misdemeanour criminal assault charge in Tacoma Municipal Court. The charge was later dismissed after Staff Sargeant Robert Bales completed an anger management assessment, had no other law violations in six months and paid a $300 fine, court records show.

Court records show that Staff Sergeant Robert Bales was cited for a misdemeanour hit-and-run incident in October 2008 in Sumner. He received a deferred 12-month sentence, and paid a fine of $250, which led to a dismissal of the charges.

Records state that Staff Sargeant Robert Bales was spotted on Oct. 11, 2008, running from an accident scene shortly after midnight on the Sumner-Tapps Highway. It was a single-car rollover accident, records state. No other drivers were involved?

Witnesses reported seeing "a white male wearing military-style uniform, shaved head and bleeding," fleeing on foot and running into nearby woods. A police officer spoke to Staff Sargeant Robert Bales, the owner of the car, who said he had fallen asleep behind the wheel.

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales last Iraq deployment was Aug. 9, 2009, according to a statement on his wife's blog.

Most information about the suspect — before he was identified — has come from two camps, each representing particular interests.

There's the U.S. government, almost always represented by the voices of unidentified "senior military officials." On the other side, there's the civilian lawyer, John Henry Browne, a veteran criminal defence attorney from Seattle, near Staff Sergeant Robert Bales' home base.

For example, the suspect now identified as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales lost part of one foot due to injuries sustained in Iraq during one of his three tours of duty there, his lawyer John Henry Browne said. His lawyer John Henry Browne also said that when the 11-year veteran heard he was being sent to Afghanistan late last year, he did not want to go. He also said that a day before the rampage through two villages, the soldier saw a comrade's leg blown off.

The same goes for the possibility alcohol played a role.

On Friday, a senior U.S. defence official said Staff Sergeant Robert Bales was drinking alcohol prior to both attacks on Afghan villagers, violating a U.S. military order banning alcohol in war zones. The official discussed the matter on condition of anonymity because charges have not yet been filed.

The move to the U.S. does not necessarily mean an announcement of formal criminal charges is imminent, a defence official said such is a possible a defence of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Lawyer John Henry Browne said the Staff Sergeant Robert Bales is originally from the Midwest but now lives near Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State. His children are 2 and 5.

The Staff Sergeant's Robert Bales family says they saw no signs of aggression or anger. "They were totally shocked," by accounts of the massacre, Lawyer John Henry Browne said. "He's never said anything antagonistic about Muslims. He's in general very mild-mannered."

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, is said to have received sniper training, is assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, of the 2nd Infantry Division, which is based at Lewis-McChord and has been dispatched to Iraq three times since 2003, military officials say.

The Staff Sergeant Robert Bales was injured twice in Iraq, lawyer John Henry Browne said. A battle-related injury required surgery to remove part of one foot.

But Lawyer John Henry Browne and government officials differ in their portrayal of a second injury, to the soldier's head, in a vehicle accident.

A government official said this week that the accident was not related to combat. But Lawyer John Henry Browne said the man suffered a concussion in an accident caused by an improvised explosive device?

Lawyer John Henry Browne also said his client was "highly decorated," but did not provide any specifics.

When he returned to the Seattle area, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales at first thought he would not be required to join his unit when it shipped out for Afghanistan, his family thought he was done fighting and was counting on him staying home. Until orders came dispatching him to Afghanistan, he was training to be a military recruiter, Lawyer John Henry Browne said.

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales arrived in Afghanistan in December. On Feb. 1 2012 and was assigned to a base in the Panjwai District, near Kandahar, to work with a village stability force that pairs special operations troops with villagers to help provide neighbourhood security.

On Saturday, the day before the shooting spree, Lawyer John Henry Browne said, the soldier saw his friend's leg blown off. Lawyer John Henry Browne said his client's family provided him with that information, which has not been verified. The other soldier's "leg was blown off, and Staff Sergeant Robert Bales was standing next to him," They said.

Lawyer John Henry Browne said he did not know if his client had been suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but said it could be an issue at trial if experts believe it's relevant. Experts on PTSD said witnessing the injury of a fellow soldier and the soldier's own previous injuries put him at risk.

"We've known ever since the Vietnam war that the unfortunate phenomenon of abusive violence often closely follows the injury or death of a buddy in combat," said Dr. Roger Pitman, a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist who heads the PTSD Research Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. "The injury or death of a buddy creates a kind of a blind rage."

Seems a very mixed up case of a man who has in the past has required a need of anger management, a man who did not stand up for his own reasonability in a hit and run case, a man disappointment in not receiving promotion when he felt it was due, a man not given leave at a time he felt it was required, a man suffering from financial difficulties due to being deployed yet again, a man who was possible suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder prior to entering his deployment in Afghanistan, a man who had witness the injury of an comrade the previous day before the attack and a man who was seen to be drinking by a superior and not curtailed or be recognized as suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after this event and probably a great deal more information to come in regard of Staff Sergeant Robert Bales mental state!

Who here is going to be prepared to carry the buck for this lone loose cannon? Who has not only caused the deaths of so many Afghans but who has changed the whole concept of what the fight in Afghanistan is about? More so the pressures this now places on the remaining armed forces within Afghanistan.

I think it is fair that no matter how much in the past President Hamid Karzai has tried to bring these issues up in the past in regard of the deaths by Americans and NATO of innocent Afghan civilians the world has now started after a long 10 years to sit up and take notice.

So time has passed and dear little old president swiftly made sure the familes of the deceased have had their price in gold out of his own pocket I hear for theit loss and have we heard anymore news on this dreadful event, well not as I can find, then you were not meant to, the sooner it was swept under the carpet the better . . . Thus giving the US military time to rearrange the story to suit them selves . . .

Well how is this for a story ?

On the night in question the Afghans stated there was more soldiers involved in that incident that night and what we are seeing here is just a cover up, looking at the evidence and facts it would seem strange that all of this was able to be done by just one lone rouge soldier and just maybe the Afghans on the grounds have got it right ! 

Dear old Sergeant Robert Bales was a man who had just placed his house on the market because he was no longer in a postion to afford the mortgage, but since this incident the house has been removed from off the market, strange as you would think as a man that would no longer be receiving a wage from the US military would be in a far worse postion than he was in the first place !

Has dear old Sergeant Robert Bales done a closed deal with good old uncle Sam in return of taking the wrap for a whole bunch of rouge soldiers at a price of securing his own familys future ?

Something that will remain to be seen for those of us that do not forget and will be checking on it at a later date . . .

MASHALLAH.

Aysha Sadiq-Ali *_*;