Justin Zipser
A contractor of the U.S. military was charged today with the death of an Afgan civilian in Afghanistan CNN.com reports. Don Ayala, of Louisiana, is being charged with second degree murder in a U.S. District Court in Virginia for his actions after helping to restrain the Afghan man and then shooting him in the head.
According to the article, the Afghan man, Abdul Salam, was apprehended by multiple men (including Ayala) after he apparently threw a lit container of flammable liquid at the head of a fellow contractor, badly burning the man. After ten minutes of being held down, Ayala shot Salam in the head, killing him instantly. One would have to assume that inherent tensions were present between the men solely because of their respective nationalities, which makes the incident very saddening.
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