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Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the soldier accused of being the lone shooter in the mass murder of Afghan villagers on March 11, will be officially charged today with 17 counts of murder.

An already tense situation may have just gotten worse, with US officials removing the US Soldier accused of the Afghan civilian shootings from the country.

UPDATE:  According to MSNBC, though no protests or demonstrations were seen Monday morning, the Afghan Taliban has pledged to take revenge against the “sick-minded American Savages”, “The American ‘terrorists’ want to come up with an excuse for the perpetrator of this inhumane crime by claiming that this immoral culprit was mentally ill...

We’ve all seen the heartwarming videos of soldiers stationed overseas surprising their children stateside with early returns home. And that’s how this video of Capt. Cherissa Jackson, who had been deployed in Afghanistan, begins, with mom surprising her daughters Anita and Ashley at a Gaitherburg, Maryland Kentucky Fried Chicken. But then it gets even more touching.