Karzai slams US after shooting suspect flown abroad

President Hamid Karzai on Friday accused the United States of failing to cooperate over an investigation into the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers blamed on a lone American army sniper.The Afghan government didnt receive cooperation from the USA regarding the surrender of the US soldiers to the Afghan government. This (civilian casualties) has been going on too long, Karzai told relatives of those killed.This behaviour cannot be tolerated, Karzai added.Afghan leaders demanded that the chief suspect face a public trial in Afghanistan after he allegedly walked off his military base in southern province Kandahar and killed 16 civilians, most of them women and children.But on Wednesday he was flown to Kuwait, a first step towards being charged and put on trial abroad.We asked for justice rather than compensation, Karzai said.He met 20 to 30 relatives of the victims at his palace in Kabul on Friday, where two representatives said 15 to 20 American soldiers were involved in the massacre, but provided no details to support their claim.The suspects civilian lawyer John Henry Browne said it was possible he could be tried at any major US garrison, but ruled out Afghanistan as an option.Sundays killings were the latest in a series of incidents involving American soldiers that have badly affected already fragile Afghan-US relations as the United States prepares to withdraw combat troops by the end of 2014.