Author: Sue C. | Category: Unkown category | Date: 11-11-2022

How Did This Man Think He Had the Right to Adopt This Baby?’

Army Rangers killed her parents. A Marine is raising her in America. But her Afghan family says she was taken under false pretenses.

By Rozina Ali

• Nov. 10, 2022Updated 5:03 p.m. ET

The Night Raid

Around 10 p.m. on the night of Sept. 5, 2019, a counterterrorism team of United States Army Rangers and partner forces descended onto a small village in the mountains of central Afghanistan, on a mission to capture or kill foreign fighters associated with Al Qaeda. The soldiers approached a row of three mud houses near a line of trees, beyond which lay farmland. Gunfire erupted. Shouting, booms, more shots. A man and a woman emerged from one of the houses; the woman was carrying a baby. The man was wearing a suicide vest, and he set it off. Bits of him flew into the air. Through their night vision goggles, the Rangers saw the woman, wounded but moving. She tugged at something — a bomb? — and a Ranger shot her dead. (more)

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About: Sue C.

Hi All: Like most people in the Bay Area, I'm sheltering at home. I'm trying to use this opportunity to catch up on projects that are on my back burner and trying not to feel too anxious about the worst case scenarios that are circulating.