U.S. soldier behind Afghan massacre apologizes for 'act of cowardice'

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U.S. soldier behind Afghan massacre apologizes for 'act of cowardice'

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-soldier-behind-afghan-massacre-testify-sentencing-hearing-181639968.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/sP1ntAU88QyMHAOhFv9KJw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-08-22T191538Z_3_CBRE97L1ERU00_RTROPTP_2_USA-AFGHANISTAN-TRIAL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales and the judge Army Colonel Jeffery Nance are shown in this courtroom sketch during a pre-sentencing hearing in Tacoma Washington" align="left" title="Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales and the judge Army Colonel Jeffery Nance are shown in this courtroom sketch during a pre-sentencing hearing in Tacoma Washington" border="0" /></a>By Jonathan Kaminsky TACOMA, Washington (Reuters) - A decorated U.S. soldier who gunned down 16 unarmed Afghan civilians in a nighttime rampage last year apologized on Thursday at a sentencing hearing to determine his fate, calling the killings &quot;an act of cowardice.&quot; Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a veteran of four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, has admitted to shooting the villagers, mostly women and children, in attacks on their family compounds in Kandahar province in March 2012. &quot;I am truly, truly sorry to all the people whose family members I have taken away. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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