Afghan Anger has Nato Rethinking Its Nighttime Raids

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A group of American and Afghan soldiers swooped into a village in a Taliban-heavy district early Thursday, fired their guns and came away. And in a scene repeated often here, one side cried murder and the other side claimed success.

Late in the day, this much was clear: Just after midnight, a team of American and Afghan soldiers launched an operation to detain a Taliban commander named Qari Faizullah in a village called Baran. The village is in the Qarabagh District of Ghazni Province, where the Taliban insurgency burns hot. Four males, including a boy, were killed in the raid, and another was detained.

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Afghan Anger has Nato Rethinking Its Nighttime Raids

But there the clarity ends. In a statement, the American command said four insurgents...

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