Afghanistan: U.S. Soldier Involved in Massacre Recalls Little About Incident, Also a Stock Swindler [???]
March 20th, 2012Via: ABC:
Robert Bales, the staff sergeant accused of massacring Afghan civilians, enlisted in the U.S. Army at the same time he was trying to avoid answering allegations he defrauded an elderly Ohio couple of their life savings in a stock fraud, according to federal documents reviewed by ABC News.
“He robbed me of my life savings,” Gary Liebschner of Carroll, Ohio told ABC News.
Financial regulators found that Bales “engaged in fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, churning, unauthorized trading and unsuitable investments,” according to a report on Bales filed in 2003. Bales and his associates were ordered to pay Liebschner $1,274,000 in compensatory and punitive damages but have yet to do so, according to Liebschner.
“We didn’t know where he was,” Liebschner told ABC News. “We heard the Bahamas, and all kinds of places.”
Liebschner says he recognized Bales after news reports named him as the American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a shooting rampage.
Liebschner filed a complaint against Bales in May 2000, claiming Bales took his life savings of $852,000 in AT&T stock and through a series of trades reduced its value to nothing.
Related: Lawyer Says Afghan Killings Suspect Recalls Little
Another “Lone Gunman”, eh?
Top officials in Afghanistan say the assassinations were premeditated executions carried out by death squads, who were flown in by helicopter and given air support during the mass murder and the death squads conducted the civilian slaughter in retaliation for attacks on US troops.
The killings have been found to have been conducted nearly simultaneously at two separate locations which cast major doubts the US narrative that a single gunman carried out the atrocities.
Further adding to the credibility of the Afghan narrative is these killings were conducted in less than a one hour time period during which time two Afghan woman were raped before they were murdered execution style.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/03/19/afghan-massacre-mass-murder-2-death-squads-air-support-99591/