And one more tidbit I found in this article,
......"Mr. Samad said outside the military base, known as Camp Belambay, with outraged villagers who came to support him.
They transported the bodies of Mr. Samad’s family members, as well as the other victims, and the burned blankets that had covered them as proof of the awful crime that had occurred. "..........................
So was our troops first exposure to the "massacre" when the Afghanis brought the bodies to the camp? Did US troops ever see the scene before the bodies were moved? If not, who knows where these bodies come from and who they are? We already have two people, one 35, one 60, claiming to be the father/husband of most of the women/children.
And this snippet,
................"Two of the women and some of the children had been stabbed, she and other villagers said, and blankets had been laid over them and set alight — to hide the stab wounds, she said."...................
could also have been done by someone else to try to hide manner of death or something else.