Reaction to 2012 Afghan massacre by Staff Sgt. Robert Balese
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Bales, 42, admitted to murdering 16 people, mostly women and children, and burning many of their bodies during a middle-of-the-night shooting spree.
Aug. 23, 2011 A senior U.S. official says the accused shooter in the killings of 16 civilians is U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, in this file photo. Spc. Ryan Hallock/AP
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The attack marked perhaps the grisliest act by a U.S. soldier in the decade-long Afghan war and seemed all but certain to stoke anti-American anger.
Arbiter later ordered Bales and the owner of the firm that employed him to pay $1.4 million in Ohio case.