Episode 215 - Robert Bales: The Kandahar Massacre
RedHanded
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4.5 • 18.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
During this brutal massacre, Robert Bales took the lives of 16 innocent Afghan civilians – 9 of them were children. In this week's episode, Hannah and Suruthi explore the various and disturbing factors that led to this unbelievable atrocity.
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| 0:00.0 | Prime members, you can listen to Redhanded early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Sruti. I'm Hannah. And welcome to Redhanded. Welcome to Redhanded. Again, I'm gonna start this show the same way we did last week. |
| 0:27.0 | Hopefully we sound different, not what? Yes, it's a work in progress over here at Redhanded. Brand new mics. We're very excited. |
| 0:33.4 | We are very excited. We're coming to grips with it slowly but surely we don't have any sort of in-house sound engineers. |
| 0:40.9 | We just have to figure it out. So thank you very much for bearing with us. You've all been extremely patient. |
| 0:46.6 | Having said that, we're hoping the levels are better this week. We're hoping it doesn't sound as noise gate is. It did last week. |
| 0:51.7 | Plosives might be a problem. So we're gonna try it absolutely best but please bear with us. |
| 0:58.2 | Plosives are my worst nightmare. I've got a very close-sivey mouth. I really do. She does. She's got a very close-sivey mouth and a very wistly teeth. |
| 1:06.8 | I do. Maybe it's because of my weird like symbiotyth. I don't know. We'll never know. But no, that is it guys. Bear with us. We're working on it. |
| 1:15.4 | And all with the hopes of just bringing you golden fleece quality audio. |
| 1:20.6 | God, what a throwback. I don't know. What a throwback. Did you hear what I'm talking about? |
| 1:24.5 | Someone needs to go back and listen to the violin covered episode. |
| 1:27.8 | I think if I went back and listen to the violin covered episode now, I won't let you. |
| 1:31.8 | My ears will bleed and I'll cry and go to a coma and then you'll be on your own. |
| 1:35.7 | That's why you'll never allow to listen to it again. |
| 1:38.8 | Great. I feel great about that choice. Excellent. Well, guys, that is all the intro out of the way. |
| 1:45.2 | We better get on with it because the fucking hell of a ghost. |
| 1:47.5 | Yep. All right. Okay. Everyone ready? Strap yourselves in. |
| 1:50.8 | Because today we're heading to Panjwai, a district in the kind of her province of Afghanistan. |
| 1:57.9 | It was here on the 11th of March 2012 that US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales |
| 2:04.3 | committed what is considered to be the deadliest war crime |
| 2:08.2 | blamed on a single member of the US Armed Forces since the Vietnam War. |
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