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Originally Posted by RichieLion
This soldier went specifically to this village and shot up residents and even set some on fire, and then went back to his camp, put down his weapon and surrendered.
Sounds pretty lucid to me. I don't buy many psychiatric defenses. I would say it sounds pretty evident he's guilty. Is he a little deranged? Maybe, but it's no excuse in my book. He purposely went out and shot women and children.
Nobody is more pro-military than I, but this is inexcusable if the initial stories are very close to the truth of this horror.
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Unless there is a lot of information about this man who did all the killings I too find it hard to swallow any kind of insanity defense. Doubt if many people in Afghanistan would even believe in such a defense unless say the Koran or Islamic law covers such ideas??
I am not that knowledgeable about Islamic law to know about the insanity defense in their legal system. It does look like it shows up in Iraqi law but do not know about Afghan law.