"One man entered the room and the others were standing in the yard, holding lights," Noorbinak said in the video.
A brother of one victim told Hakim that his brother's children mentioned more than one soldier wearing a headlamp. They also had lights at the end of their guns, he said.
"They don't know whether there were 15 or 20, however many there were," he said in the video.
Army officials have repeatedly denied that others were involved in the massacre, emphasizing that Bales acted alone."
The interesting thing here is that Afghan children don't have videogames. They don't have TV. In most parts of the country they don't even have electricity. So night-raid equipment like weapons lights are not likely to arise from their imaginations.
From SureFire catalog "Weapon Lights", Standard night-raid equipment for US forces
VIDEO: The SureFire Story
Hakim told MSNBC that the reason American investigators gave for trying to prevent her from interviewing the children was that her questions could "traumatize them."
Stop the presses. In this war of nightly drone attacks on compounds known to have children present, in which hundreds if not thousands of children have been killed, and killed in night raids on such compounds, the interviews might "traumatize" them. I am rarely at a loss for words. This is one of those times.
One story floated about a week after the killings puts down the sighting of more than one soldier to possible confusion with the search party looking for Bales.
"It is unclear whether the soldiers the villagers saw were part of a search party that left the base to look for Bales, who was reported missing."
But numerous reports make clear that the search party never left the area of the base.
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