© Jim Huylebroek for The New York TimesThe outskirts of Khost city.
Razo Khan woke up suddenly to the sight of assault rifles pointed at his face, and demands that he get out of bed and onto the floor.
Within minutes, the armed raiders had separated the men from the women and children. Then the shooting started.
As Mr. Khan was driven away for questioning, he watched his home go up in flames.
Within were the bodies of two of his brothers and of his sister-in-law Khanzari, who was shot three times in the head. Villagers who rushed to the home found the burned body of her 3-year-old daughter, Marina, in a corner of a torched bedroom.The men who raided the family's home that March night, in the district of Nader Shah Kot, were members of an Afghan strike force
trained and overseen by the Central Intelligence Agency in a parallel mission to the United States military's, but with looser rules of engagement.
Ostensibly, the force was searching for militants. But Mr. Khan and his family had done nothing to put themselves in the cross hairs of the C.I.A.-sponsored strike force, according to investigators.
It was clear that the raiding force had "committed an atrocity," said Jan-mir Zazai, a member of the Khost provincial council who was part of the government investigating team.
"Everyone we spoke to said they would swear on the innocence of the victims."
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