Eyes Open, Back Into the Afghan Crucible: Michael Kamber Returns – NYTimes.com

The night before I leave Paris, Alissa J. Rubin, the Times’s bureau chief in Kabul, e-mails me to say that our embed is postponed. The unit we’re to join has suffered a tragedy. “Yesterday, they had six soldiers killed by an Afghan border policeman-in-training,” she writes. Six families have just had their lives torn apart.