Threats Bring Afghan Girl Back to US
21st June 2014
A little Afghan girl whose love of painting won the hearts of U.S. doctors who fitted her with a prosthetic arm returned to the United States on Thursday, after the group that sponsored her first visit said it learned her newfound celebrity made her a subject of death threats at home.
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Najjar said all the attention has made the girl a target of insurgents in Afghanistan, who railed against her exposure to Western culture.