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BALES TRIAL: Afghan Guards, Victims' Family Scheduled To Testify Late Friday
The testimony will be taken via a live satellite feed from Kandahar in Afghanistan.
Tonight, two guards and several family members of the victims whom Joint Base Lewis-McChord Staff Robert Bales allegedly massacred in Afganistan are scheduled to testify.
The witnesses will be making their testimony via video teleconference from a U.S. base in Afghanistan.
Bales, whose trial has now entered its fifth day, is accussed of carrying out a nighttime massacre in March in Afghanistan. The charges include 16 specifications of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted premeditated murder against the Lake Tapps man.
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