one gunman -- and it was unclear whether extra troops had been sent out to the village after the attack to catch the gunman [they were preparing to search but had not yet left the base when Bales returned and was taken into custody, as subsequent information makes clear - pow wow ]. (About 1.5 miles to the south of Camp Belamby; where 12 were killed and none wounded ) ________________________________________\\... There's more precise detail from eyewitnesses to the killings and/or their aftermath in the southernmost Balandi/Najiban village [and the nearby Dawood home (see July 7th post )] -- due in part to the dramatic nature of the Wazir family tragedy there, and possibly also because it may not have been clear at first that a second (and third?) village to the north was also targeted, so that reporting and photography early on focused mostly on the Balandi/Najiban survivors. There are reports of direct attacks on two homes in [ or near ] Balandi/Najiban: The home of Mohammad Dawood [which I learned in late June is located about one-half kilometer east/northeast of Balandi/Najiban] and the home of Dawood's neighbors Mohammad Wazir and Abdul Samad (Wazir's father uncle ) [which is located in Balandi/Najiban village proper]. A Balandi/Najiban neighbor of the two Wazir/Samad home attacked there, Agha Lala, was an eyewitness to the attackers outside those that dwelling -- and, because Lala himself was not being directly attacked at the time, and evidently watched the attackers for some time (before being