Afghan Massacre: Truth Of Events Remains Elusive

Getting to the truth of the events that led to one of the worst massacres of the war in Afghanistan may be as long and tortuous as the conflict itself.

Reporter Yalda Hakim of Australia's SBS, one of the first western journalists to visit the villages where a U.S. soldier allegedly shot 17 people dead, told CNN that while she felt the villagers were telling the truth, some of their accounts were conflicting."

I did sense that they were upfront and their stories were heartfelt," Hakim said. "(But) there were some disparities between the stories."

I spoke to mainly children and it is always difficult to assess whether a child is actually aware of what they saw," she said. "Some of the children I spoke to told me that they only saw one American in their house. The eight-year-old girl that I spoke to said she saw several Americans in her house."

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