Two US army soldiers have been found guilty of crimes and are about to be sentenced. S/SGT Robert Bales killed 16 Afghan villagers, most of them women and children, was confronted in court by several survivors at the start of sentencing hearing.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/8/20/sgt-bales-confrontedbyafghanmassacrevictim.html

Pvt Bradley Manning convicted of making public via Wikileaks US war crimes and diplomatic subversion of foreign governments, didn’t kill anyone and is expected to be sentenced later today.

Stay tuned to their respective sentences.

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-- Tom Potter, Mayor of Portland 2005-2009

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