Posted : Friday Mar 16, 2012 12:31:46 EDT
SEATTLE — The soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers was on his way to a U.S. military prison, a senior defense official said Friday, as the soldier's attorney spoke of the impact the fighting had on his client.
The defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security surrounding the move, said the soldier was en route to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., the military's only maximum-security prison.
The Kuwaiti military said in a statement carried on the state news Friday that the soldier had left Kuwait. He had been moved there from Afghanistan on Wednesday because, officials said, there was no appropriate detention facility to hold him in Afghanistan.
The U.S. defense official said the suspect's move does not necessarily mean a decision was imminent on announcing formal criminal charges.
The soldier's attorney, Seattle attorney John Henry Browne, told The Associated Press on Friday that he and the judge advocate general had to cancel a 6 a.m. PDT video conference with the soldier because the suspect was either preparing to fly or was en route.
Browne said either he or his legal partner, Emma Scanlan, will meet with the soldier at Fort Leavenworth next week.
Browne said that the day before the rampage, the soldier saw his friend's leg blown off. Browne said his client's family provided him with details of the injury to another U.S. soldier. The details have not been independently verified.
"His leg was blown off, and my client was standing next to him," he said Thursday.
It isn't clear whether the incident might have helped prompt the horrific middle-of-the-night attack on civilians in two villages last Sunday. Browne said it affected all of the soldiers at the base.
The suspect had been injured twice during his three previous deployments to Iraq and didn't want to go to Afghanistan to begin with, Browne said.
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It is OUTRAGEOUS to hear how our military HEROES are being treated! I am grateful, that he is being transferred back to America, there is no telling what the Barbaric, Muslime, Islamics would do to him! He may be innocent! The Muslime Bastard that shot and murdered all those people at Fort Hood, is still breathing and he should have already been EXECUTED there is NO doubt about his innocence or guilt!!
I hope to a HERO'S welcome.
Leavenworth---a part of Kansas God would like to forget. But being Stateside has got to be some improvement over the House of Islam.Our Divider in Chief recently spoke of President Lincoln and said the Republicans would do well to remember Lincoln. OK I recall Nov.15,1862 President Lincoln had excerpts(if not the entire General Order issued by General George Washington 9 July 1776 Where the General hoped and expected every Officer and man to so live and act as becomes a Christian Soldier...." Contrast Lincoln and Washington to the current resident is almost blasphemy especially as the 0 has placed our men and women in military uniform subject to Islam --about as polar opposite to Great Presidents as one could be.
I wonder if the ACLU will be so quick to defend this soldier as they are to defend Muslims that have killed our men and women
At least the DOD did the right thing here, by getting him TFO of afgahnistan and taking him to Ft. Leavenworth.
Sadly, this guy is going to be used to set an "example". "Village stability operation"! What in the hell kind of war has "village stability" operations??
I never thought I'd say this, but based on all that has happened in the last 72 hrs, we need to get the hell out of there, NOW. This is not a war. You don't need trained and armed warriors. Send in the Peace Corps.
I am GLAD that this solider is back in the US, Mulims do not have the same reguard for life that we have, we must rememer that our army has been at war longer that ww1 and ww2, ETC, did he do what was nessary, or did he snap with so many deplyments??????????