The U.S. military has identified the Army staff sergeant suspected of gunning down 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children. Robert Bales is a 38-year-old man who enlisted in the military after the Sept. 11 attacks. He is a father of two who served three tours in Iraq. He is being held in solitary confinement in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai raised doubts that Bales could have carried out the massacre alone.

Hamid Karzai: “On the question of the account of the one person supposedly who has done this, the story of the village elders and the affectees is entirely different. They believe it is not possible for one person to do that. In his family [pointing to one of family members] in four rooms people were killed, children and women were killed, and then they were all brought together in one room and then put on fire. That, one man cannot do.”

Afghan protesters are continuing to call for Bales to be tried in Afghanistan.

Jamal Khan: “We don’t want the laws practiced by the Americans and other foreigners. We have our Koran and our Islamic law, and the U.S. perpetrator must be put on trial according to our laws.”