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Afghans: US paid $50,000 per shooting spree death

By Heidi Vogt and Mirwais Khan

 |  Associated Press  

  March 25, 2012

The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed and $11,000 for each person wounded in the shooting spree allegedly committed by a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunday.

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