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if the military can continue holding him while they continue their investigation. alex? john yang, thanks for that live report. so many are still asking how exactly could something like this happen? a bit earlier i spoke with matthew akins who has been covering afghanistan since 2008 and he tried to put the shootings into perspective for us. this kind of small, special forces base where bales is living there s not a lot of supervision and he was able to bluff his way past the afghan guards guarding the outer perimeter and they were used to night raids in the area and they were used to u.s. soldiers kicking down their doors at night and they knew in those situations if they put up any resistance they ll be killed. so, you know, he was able to go from door to door, trying different doors and killing 16 people, men, women and children in their beds. sergeant bales was on his first trip to afghanistan after three tours in iraq.

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