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March 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The court-martial of a US soldier charged with killing 17 Afghan villagers will likely be held in 18-24 months in the United States, his home base said Friday, giving details of the alleged crimes.
Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, of the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment of the US Army stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Seattle, is also accused of six counts of assault and attempted murder in southern Kandahar province earlier this month.
A charge sheet released by the military base in the northwestern US state of Washington detailed the allegations against the 38-year-old, including the injuries sustained by the victims who survived the atrocity.
Bales is currently being held at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, after being flown out of Afghanistan following the March 11 rampage, which plunged US-Afghan relations to an all-time low in a decade of war.
But the “convening authority” for the case has now been transferred to Lewis-McChord base, a spokesman said after the charges against him were announced in Kabul.
“It could be mostly either (Fort) Leavenworth or here, depending on what determination is made, but the army does reserve the right to have it at other locations,” Lewis-McChord spokesman Chris Ophardt told AFP.
A decision on where to hold the hearing will come “in the coming months,” he said, adding: “It’s going to be a long process — normally between 18 to 24 months before it actually would go to trial, if it goes to trial.”
The charge sheet, giving more details than a statement issued by the US military in Kabul, had the names of the victims blanked out, and listed the injuries sustained by the survivors.
Bales was namely said to have assaulted “a male child of apparent Afghan descent… by shooting him with a loaded firearm and did thereby intentionally inflict grievous bodily harm upon him, to wit: gunshot wound to the thigh.”
Other assault victims suffered gunshots to the neck, head, chest and groin, according to the charge sheet.
Bales faces a maximum possible punishment of dishonorable discharge from the Armed Forces, reduction to the lowest enlisted grade, total forfeiture of pay and allowances, and death, according to the statement issued in Kabul.
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