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of course, you have the koran burning, a u.s. soldier allegedly going on this deadly shooting rampage, so the timing is important. chief intelligence correspondent catherine her eurpblg is live with more on what the temperature commander in afghanistan had to say today. some interesting changes on the hill. reporter: that s right. so far the hearing has not been dominated by testimony by staff sergeant bale, confirming there are 16 shootings of afghan civilian, one is criminal and the second, administrative, which means it looks at the command structure that allowed bales to go off base. allen is also testifying under repeated questioning that the mission remains on track in afghanistan des might the despite the massacre of afghans and burning of korans and there s no testimony about the acceleration of drawdown of u.s. forces. allen suggested the afghans are stepping up. it went from 55 batallion formation toss 108, so the
or is this a premeditated act as jon was saying, the notion of leaving the base and the kind of methodical nature of these killings that feels like it was something different? clearly, in a way it s some of both. meaning that, this was a very irrational man at that time. it s not typical of people with post-traumatic stress. it s not what we see when someone quote-unquote snap. it occurs more in the heat of the moment. this was a planned act. he clearly had in mind. also the very nature of the act tells us this was a very tormented man. what he did was very, very disturbing. colonel jacobs, let me ask sort of take on this question that so many of us in the u.s., media in the u.s. military as we heard from jon, the initial questions are about this soldier. if you re an afghan civilian, the idea of someone killing 16 civilians and then the first