the forest. its commander officers lived in the nearby village. here civilians tell disturbing familiar story. a local mechanic says he was detained and interrogated for almost 24 hours. he says he was beaten, blind folded, tied up, and subjected to mock executions. he says he s never known fear like it and constantly thought those were his last moments on earth. local priest describes dealing with the aftermath of even greater cruelty. he says, he found five mentor chured and killed in the garden, two more in the forest. and the russians brought him two dead women and told him to bury them. other russians in this area camped out in fields with their artillery pieces, installed what comforts they could, a mattress, alcohol, the works of shakespeare. rockets flew through the sky
to be held just down toward the ferguson brew house if you re familiar with the ferguson area. it s an area where there s a large area for people to gather for the vigil tonight. okay. last night when you were at the police station and you saw the shooting happen, can you just tell us what happened? it s my understanding when i looked at the footage it seemed like it was sort of a protest/rally. it seemed to be sort of winding down when the shots rang out. what happened? you could almost say that the protest did wind down when the shots rang out. it was around 12:00 midnight last night. most of the police were already sent home by the commander officers. most protesters left to go home. and you heard out of nowhere what sounded like a fire cracker or firework go off at the top of the hill. once we looked to the top of the hill we saw what looked to be muzzle flashes from gunfire firing towards from my
walked past us while i was waiting to take the shot. but about 40 people walked past us towards where the candlelight vigil was scheduled to be held just down toward the ferguson brew house if you re familiar with the ferguson area. it s an area where there s a large area for people to gather for the vigil tonight. okay. last night when you were at the police station and you saw the shooting happen, can you just tell us what happened? it s my understanding when i looked at the footage it seemed like it was sort of a protest/rally. it seemed to be sort of winding down when the shots rang out. what happened? you could almost say that the protest did wind down when the shots rang out. it was around 12:00 midnight last night. most of the police were already sent home by the commander officers. most protesters left to go home. and you heard out of nowhere what sounded like a fire cracker or firework go off at the top of the hill. once we looked to the top of the hill we saw what looked
you could almost say that the protest did wind down when the shots rang out. it was around 12:00 midnight last night. most of the police were already sent home by the commander officers. most protesters left to go home. and you heard out of nowhere what sounded like a fire cracker or firework go off at the top of the hill. once we looked to the top of the hill we saw what looked to be muzzle flashes from gunfire firing towards from my standpoint, towards my direction as well as the officers. i was adjacent to the officers in front of the ferguson police department. was it scare y i? i can tell from some of the video shot last night that people reacted in a pretty panicked way and that people hit the ground a lot of people ran. what happened after the shots rang out? it was definitely a scary moment because you did not know where the gun shots were coming from, if there were going to be more gun shots and who were the target of those gun shots. it was a scary moment for all of
traditionally, if you want to pay an afghan soldier, you pay his commanding officer in cash. then the commanding officer doles out whatever cash he the doles out whatever cash he thinks that soldier should get. totally ripe for corruption, right? soldiers don t know exactly what they re entitled to and commanders take whatever they can get around that. to get around that, the nato training mission in afghanistan has started paying soldiers by cell phone. although there isn t a robust banking system, just about every soldier can be counted on to have a mobile phone. when payday comes, afghan soldiers get a message containing the amount they re due to the paid and a code. they then take that to a mobile phone shop and the shop gives them their pay. the idea is to standardize and professionalize the military and cut commander officers out of an opportunity to steal from their troops. the corrupt commanding officers have adapted as well. rather than directly stealing cash from their soldie