BY MIMI WELLS Ayesha was thirteen years old when her parents gave her to a forty-year old man to settle a blood debt between their families in accordance with a Pashtun custom known as “baad.” The man…
Month: May 2011
One at a Time
BY MIMI WELLS Specialist Mathew “Doc” Kenney sat in the backseat of the third heavily armored MRAP, near the window. It was around midnight on Easter Sunday, 2009, and the four-car convoy was returning home from escorting a group of…