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Afghan Army Chief says 15 to 20 US servicemembers participated in massacre The Afghan Army Chief of Staff says the massacre of 16 civilians, including nine children, in Kandahar province was a "premeditated assassination carried out by a number of US servicemen", RIA Novosti reports, citing Afghan media. Lt. General Sher Mohammad Karimi’s harsh condemnation of the March 11 mass murder flies in the face the version of events posited by the NATO-led security mission. "They are engaged in a cover up of the facts", says one anonymous source. The Top command of the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) insists that the serial murder of Afghan civilians was carried out by just one US serviceman – Staff Sgt. Robert Bales – who went on a killing spree for unknown reasons. "Bales was fingered as a way to keep US media focus and attention on him and away from Karzai recent statement. It was a ploy and the US media fell for it. This despite the fact that it could endanger his entire Bale family, close relatives and friends to revenge killings", says counterterrorism expert Dawood Mohammed of Charlotte, N.C. Advertisement Lt. Gen. Karimi met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and relatives of the victims on Friday in Kabul. Saying he had personally visited the villages where the slaughter took place, the General stressed he had repeatedly demanded to meet with the suspect Robert Bales but was turned down cold. Then Bales was spirited out of Afghanistan as part of an alleged cover up. President Karzai has also announced that the conclusions of numerous commissions investigating the crime scenes show the murders was carried out by “multiple assailants”. The President of Afghanistan further stressed the American investigation team "refused to sufficiently co-operate" with the Afghan side. The Afghan parliamentary investigation team has reported that anywhere from 15 to 20 US troops could have taken part in the massacre. "This is bomb shell information that is not being reported in the United States for obvious reasons", says Erin Wolfkill of Charlotte, N.C. "Its all over Russian TV but nobody knows that the highest ranking military officer in Afghanistan is claiming that the massacre could not have been preformed by one drunk soldier", he said. "The mainstream media will never be allowed to report this kind of news in the United States", says Latisha Ames of Charlotte. "The government would never allow it. Any reporter that would report these facts would be taking an incredible risk. You would come across as a conspiracy nut", she said. Facts however are facts - they speak for themselves. Robert Tilford