A Civilian Casualty in Afghanistan

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"I have seen U.S. troops smile and swear with pleasure amid the hunt. But if there were smiles this time, they did not last long. An hour and a half later, while taking refuge in a nearby compound, a man in a gray turban approached the compound to tell the Marines that his niece, 14, had been killed by shrapnel."

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