The girl who picked up an AK-47 to defend her family.

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When her home was attacked last month, 15-year-old Nooria picked up an AK-47, killing two men and wounding a third. She was hailed as a hero. But the story behind what happened that night was more complicated. Did Nooria shoot Taliban attackers, or her husband? Or both?

According to Nooria, it was about 1am when they burst through the front door of her parents' home. In her bedroom, the teenager, who was woken by the noise, stayed still and quiet. She thought about her 12-year-old brother in his bedroom. Then she heard the men take her parents outside the small, hillside home. She described the events of that night in an interview with the BBC. The next thing she heard were gunshots, she said.

That night, instead of hiding, Nooria grabbed her father's gun - an AK-47 rifle - and opened fire at the men outside. She fired until she was nearly out of bullets, she said. Eventually, about an hour after they arrived, the men retreated into the night, she said. Outside the house lay five dead bodies: those of her mother and father, an elderly neighbour who was also her relative, and two of the attackers. "It was horrific," she said. "They were so cruel. My father was disabled. My mother was innocent. And they just killed them."
But three weeks on, multiple accounts of the attack and the circumstances around it - from Nooria, her older brother, family members of the dead attackers, local police, local elders, Taliban representatives, and the Afghan government - paint starkly differing versions of events. According to several of the accounts given to the BBC, one of the gunmen that night was Nooria's husband, and the heroic story of a young girl fending off Taliban militants was in fact mired in a family dispute.

The conflicting accounts threaten to bury the truth of what happened to Nooria, and they reveal something of the tragic reality of life in rural Afghanistan - where young women are often caught up in a culture of tribalism, traditional custom and patriarchy that controls their lives. Like Nooria, they have little power, little access to education, and little say in how or when they are dragged into violence.

The Taliban denied any involvement in a clash with a teenage girl, but they did confirm there was a raid in the same village that night, saying a local police checkpoint was targeted resulting in two Taliban casualties, but no loss of life. It is not uncommon in Afghanistan for civilians to be praised by the president for defeating Taliban attacks. But when President Ashraf Ghani invited Nooria to the capital Kabul, reactions were mixed.

Some said she was a hero. Others said she was an innocent child caught between two warring sides - attacked by one, used as a PR stunt by the other. "Can't understand how in a country whose people have seen enough death and violence to know the value of life and peace, can such glorify violence and praise take up arms," wrote one Twitter user. "Violence is not a response to violence!", another called Nooria a "symbol of Afghan women who succeeded to defend her life".
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The girl who picked up an AK-47 to defend her family

An Afghan girl was hailed as a hero, but her story was more complicated than it first looked.
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Maniac200688thewhitenigr said:
20 years in afghanistan and all America has got is more opiates, more thebiane to be made into oxycotin. I guess controlling the largest opium fields in the world gives you allot of power, but I think its time to bring the troops home.
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Read this post. You wrote it. Nothing you wrote pertains to the article except the country Afghanistan. You utter fuck wit.

Sorry you're such a stupid faggot. Again maybe you can smoke enough pot to stone yourself smart.
 
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GroyperSupreme said:
Read this post. You wrote it. Nothing you wrote pertains to the article except the country Afghanistan. You utter fuck wit.

Sorry you're such a stupid faggot. Again maybe you can smoke enough pot to stone yourself smart.
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Why do you think teenage terrorist fighter is in the Media , shes a propaganda figure in the WAR IN AFGHANISTAN which is directly related to the article. You dont get to play philosophy professor and tell people what they can and cant post you absolute cunt.
 
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Maniac200688thewhitenigr said:
Why do you think teenage terrorist fighter is in the Media , shes a propaganda figure in the WAR IN AFGHANISTAN which is directly related to the article. You dont get to play philosophy professor and tell people what they can and cant post you absolute cunt.
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Yes I can when people post absolute bullshit as you do on a near constant basis. Don't get butthurt. It's just the internet faggot.
 
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