23. Of course they gain by the execution, and the public terror it causes, to
keep people from working with the Americans - but if they wanted a false confession they'd have the kid confess to targeting civilians at the US request, putting the onus on the occupation instead of on the kid. They wouldn't even have to come up with a 'why' - simply saying "they told me to" would be more than sufficient to rally people against the occupation.
Look, I'm not defending the operation. I'm simply saying there is no reason to believe it is a false confession. The kid orchestrated the killing of civilians for his own profit, and the Americans obliged him. That's bad enough.
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