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Afghan couple accuse US Marine of abducting their baby

FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran at a madrassa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - A Qatar Airways aircraft takes off with foreigners from the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021, as some 200 foreigners, including Americans, flew out of the country, the first such large-scale departure since U.S and foreign forces concluded their frantic withdrawal at the end of the previous month. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File) FILE - Families evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, wait to board a bus after they arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. In late summer 2021, the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File) FILE - Smoke billows from the Green Village, home to several international organizations and guesthouses, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. Angry residents climbed into the international compound that had been targeted and set part of it on fire. September 2019 was one of the deadliest months of the entire U.S. occupation in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) FILE - A cross erected on Candlers Mountain overlooks Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Originally from Florida, Joshua Mast, who would be come a Marine Corps attorney, married his wife, Stephanie, and attended the evangelical Christian college. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) FILE - A student reads the Quran, Islam's holy book, at a madrasa in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. The American concept of adoption doesn’t exist in Afghanistan. Under Islamic law, a child’s bloodline cannot be severed and their heritage is sacred. Instead of adoption, a guardianship system called kafala allows Muslims to take in orphans and raise them as family, without relinquishing the child’s name or bloodline. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) FILE - Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 16, 2021. An Afghan couple who arrived in the U.S. as refugees are suing a U.S. Marine and his wife for allegedly abducting their baby. (AP Photo/Shekib Rahmani, File)