Originally published on Thu May 17, 2012 7:16 pm
Sgt. J.P. Huling, a Marine from Ohio, was killed this month in southern Afghanistan.
It wasn't a roadside bomb or a Taliban sniper that killed him. It was another sergeant — an Afghan soldier known as Sgt. Zabitollah, who like many Afghans went by one name.
It was a grim coincidence that brought these two sergeants together on May 6, a Sunday afternoon, at a mud-walled compound along a desolate stretch of road in a remote corner of Afghanistan.
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