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...where the raid occurred, different and confusing claims are circulating. One allegation is that the U.S. made a mistake, attacking and killing provincial government soldiers who had gone to the area to accept a Taliban surrender and had been guarding the munitions stored in a local school and the district headquarters. A man claimed that two bodies were found with hands bound and shot in the head; furthermore, that 22 to 40 soldiers and a number of civilians were killed in the raid. The fear in Tarin Kowt is that the U.S. may have acted on information from local warlords...
...Little thought is given to the girls' return. Many simply don't. But for those who survive with their health intact, the journey home can be fraught. Most lack the requisite identity cards, which are issued solely in the district of residence and only to people aged 18 or older. "Either the girls have to bribe their way home, if they have enough money, or more usually they need to be sponsored by their parents or the village head," says Waing. Such arrangements, she adds, are extremely rare. "Generally these are the very people who sent them away...
Seth Horowitz, spokesperson for the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office, said the alleged rape was not a random...
After completing an extensive investigation, Mederos turned over the evidence to the Middlesex district attorney, who took the evidence to the Grand Jury. The results of the completed investigation were unsealed on Tuesday when the indictments were announced in Cambridge Superior Court. Their arraignments are scheduled...
...four have consistently maintained their innocence in the case, which has languished ever since the government tried but failed to convict one S.L.A. figure in the robbery 25 years ago. It was revived with the 1999 arrest of Olson. According to the Sacramento district attorney, the FBI has used new forensic techniques to link the lead pellets in Opsahl's abdomen to shotgun shells recovered from an S.L.A. safe house. Olson's guilty plea in the bombing plot reportedly confirmed what Hearst told the FBI decades ago--that the loot from the robbery helped finance subsequent S.L.A. crimes...