Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta fields questions from the media regarding the recent murder of civilians in Afghanistan during a flight to Kyrgyzstan on March 12, 2012 In Flight. This past weekend a U.S. soldier reportedly went on an early-morning rampage killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan. Most of those killed were children and women. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
It's incredibly difficult to surmise what might have pushed one American sergeant to allegedly massacre 16 Afghan civilians. But new details about the still-unnamed staff sergeant's background suggest that brain damage, wrought by a traumatic brain injury during an earlier deployment, might have been a contributing factor.
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