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...taking all of us with them on their mission, seeing their images through their eyes. So we have Nachtwey reflecting on his photograph of an Afghan amputee, and David Guttenfelder explaining how he took his haunting image of Marines sleeping in one-man trenches in Afghanistan's Helmand province. The Marine in the middle is Corporal Kurtis Lee Baller - and we even found his wife, who instantly recognized him in the picture. "I knew it was Kurtis right away because that's how he sleeps at home," she said. "Not in a hole, but when he sleeps on the couch...
...Opposes Obama's plan to send additional troops to Afghanistan...
Three months after a German-ordered air strike in Kunduz, Northern Afghanistan, Germany's Defense Ministry is poised to pay compensation to the relatives of Afghan civilians killed in the attack. On Wednesday, a lawyer representing victims' families held talks with Defense Ministry officials in Berlin aimed at hammering out a compensation deal. "This isn't just about dishing out a few dollars," Karim Popal, a Bremen-based lawyer representing 80 relatives of victims, tells TIME. "We want to set up a special fund and provide long-term help for the women and children who lost their families' breadwinners...
...raid and now has to look after her six daughters by herself. "My clients are furious that German forces ordered the Kunduz air strike. They feel very disappointed," says Popal. "They see German troops as murderers, just as American soldiers are viewed." (See pictures of the battle in Afghanistan's Kunar province...
...This will not be the first time the German government has paid compensation to relatives of civilians killed in Afghanistan. In 2008, the German army handed $20,000 to the family of an Afghan woman and two children who were shot dead by a German soldier at a checkpoint. But given the scale of September's air strike in Kunduz - widely considered the most deadly air raid involving German forces in Germany's post-war history - the payout to victims' relatives is bound to be much bigger. The Defense Ministry spokesman dismisses German media reports of a $4.5 million payout...