| The American staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghan villagers had been drinking alcohol -- a violation of military rules in combat zones -- and suffering from the stress related to his fourth combat tour and tensions with his wife about the deployments on the night of the massacre, a senior American official said Thursday. The military was preparing to move the sergeant to a prison in the United States as early as Friday, most likely to Fort Leavenworth, Kan., just a day after he was flown to a detention site in Kuwait from Afghanistan. |
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