"The girl recalled this moment to The Associated Press as if nature itself had betrayed her: 'The wind blew her out of my hands.' For her, what the West wrought that evening was an inescapable inferno. 'I see this attack every night... it comes to me in my dreams.'"
"The US claimed it was targeting an al-Qaeda compound, along with foreign fighters from Turkmenistan. Family and community members said that the Americans had attacked an Afghan farmer, his wife, and their ten children."
"It turned out that the baby was not lost at all. She was on a military helicopter with her family's attackers. The raid team would soon tell an orphan rescue story for the ages."
"Four of the children survived-he and neighbors dug through the rubble to rescue them, as well as the bodies of their parents, who they buried along with their 5 dead children."
On September 5, 2019, a US military raid in rural Afghanistan led to the deaths of a farmer, his wife, and their ten children. A young girl lost her infant sister during the chaos, believing her to be dead. The US claimed to target an al-Qaeda compound, while locals insisted the attack was on innocent civilians. Four children survived, but the infant was initially thought lost. She was later found alive, taken by US troops to a hospital, sparking controversy over the raid's true nature.
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