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(CNN) -- The brother of skater Nancy Kerrigan, charged with assault and battery in an incident involving his father, was released on bond, authorities said Wednesday.

Mark Kerrigan posted the previously set $10,000 bail and was released from custody, according to the Woburn District Court Clerk's office in Massachusetts.

Kerrigan, 45, was fitted with a tracking device and under conditions of his release is not allowed to leave his home other than to visit his attorney, the clerk's office said. He also is forbidden to use any drugs or alcohol other than prescription medication, can have no access to weapons and must have mental health counseling.

"The Kerrigan family is delighted to have Mark back with them," family spokeswoman Nancy Sterling said in a statement. "They ask that you respect their privacy as they welcome Mark home."

He was arraigned in January and pleaded not guilty to charges he assaulted his father, Daniel Kerrigan, 70. The elder Kerrigan died January 24 after an alleged altercation with his 45-year-old son at the family's home in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

Mark Kerrigan, through his attorney, has denied any responsibility in his father's death.

Daniel Kerrigan's death was ruled a homicide by the medical examiner, but Middlesex County prosecutors have not said whether other charges might be filed against the younger Kerrigan in light of the finding.

The Kerrigan family has said, in a statement released through their attorney, that they believe the medical examiner's finding to be "premature and inaccurate."

"The Kerrigan family does not blame anyone for the unfortunate death of Dan Kerrigan, who had a pre-existing heart condition," said the family statement, released by attorney Tracy Miner.

According to Middlesex County Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Keeley, police responded to a 911 call at approximately 1:30 a.m. January 24 from Brenda Kerrigan, wife of Daniel and mother to Mark and Nancy Kerrigan.

Keeley told District Court Judge Mark Sullivan during the arraignment for Mark Kerrigan that there was a violent argument and struggle between the father and his son, resulting in the elder Kerrigan falling or collapsing on the kitchen floor. Keeley said that Mark Kerrigan told authorities "that he did in fact have an argument with his father, the argument became physical, he grabbed his father around the neck, and at some point the father collapsed to the floor."

According to Keeley, police found Mark Kerrigan in the basement of the house, "clearly intoxicated" and "extremely combative." He refused to comply with police officers, said Keeley, and they had to subdue him with pepper spray before forcibly removing him from the home.

Mark Kerrigan's attorney, Denise Moore, said in court that Kerrigan was unemployed, was recently released from a correctional facility and was living at home with his parents. He is taking medications and seeking psychological help for post-traumatic stress, apparently from his time in the Army, she added.

Nancy Kerrigan first gained prominence by winning a bronze medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. In 1994 she earned an Olympic silver medal in Lillehammer, Norway.

She is perhaps best remembered for surviving an attack before the 1994 Winter Games by skating rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband and an accomplice.

CNN's Bob Crowley, Evan Buxbaum and Vanessa Juarez contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- A Texas Rangers fan who fell over a railing while trying to catch a ball will have a place at Rangers Ballpark next season after the team erects a statue in his memory.

Shannon Stone, a 39-year-old firefighter from Brownwood, Texas, fell to his death July 7. His 6-year-old son Cooper witnessed the accident.

"The statue, which is tentatively to be named Rangers Fans, is expected to be in place for the 2012 season," the Texas Rangers announced in a statement Monday. It will depict Stone and his son attending a Rangers game.

"The full-size bronze statue is likely to be located outside the home plate gate of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington," the Rangers said.

The tragedy took place in the second inning of the ill-fated game. Star outfielder Josh Hamilton tossed a souvenir ball into the stands after a batter hit a foul ball. Stone stuck out his glove and reached for the ball, but lost his balance and flipped over the railing of the outfield seats. He fell about 20 feet and crashed head-first into an area near a scoreboard.

Stone died of blunt-force trauma, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner.

Rangers President Nolan Ryan, a Hall of Fame pitcher, has said the club would review the height of railings at the stadium, even though they already exceeded the city's code limits.

The team has set up an account accepting donations in Stone's honor with the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation. Donated money has been earmarked to help the Stone family. The Rangers have donated an undisclosed sum, according to the team's website.

Stone's widow, Jenny, said she appreciates Ryan and the Rangers during the family's time of loss.

"Shannon and Cooper had a special relationship, and we are touched and grateful that it will be memorialized at one of their favorite places," she said in the statement. "Our hope is that this statue will not be a symbol of our family tragedy but rather a reminder of the importance of a family's love -- love of each other, love of spending time together, and love of the game."

CNN's Sara Pratley contributed to this report.

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BIG SUR, California (CNN) -- Thousands of people living in Paradise are fleeing their small northern California town Wednesday as wildfires charge into the area, officials said.

A fire captain looks at the fire burning in southern Santa Barbara, California, on Tuesday.

More than half the town's 26,000 residents have been evacuated as firefighters struggled to battle growing wildfires in the area, authorities said. Residents of the nearby town of Concow had already been told to leave their homes.

As of 10 a.m. about 14,000 people had been evacuated from Paradise, said Chuck Rough, director of the emergency operations center in the town.

"We don't have much containment," said Rough, who said thick smoke in the area had made it impossible to fight the fire by air Tuesday. "Today we are holding our breath literally and figuratively."

The blaze -- one of several in Butte County -- has already torched 40 homes. It's just one of the 1,780 wildfires that have scorched more than 614,000 acres in the state in the last few weeks.

Most of the fires have been caused by lightning strikes. There were still 323 active fires Wednesday that were being battled by about 20,000 federal, state and local firefighters, authorities said.

The fires near Paradise, which is about 90 miles north of Sacramento, California, threatened thousands of homes, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire.

Residents streamed to shelters in the area, some not knowing if their homes had been destroyed, said Jeannine Olson, a volunteer nurse at Neighborhood Church in the nearby city of Chico.

Olson said the church shelter was filled to capacity with about 150 people, and 20 more were living in their cars in the church parking lot.

"People are a little scared and are wondering what is going on," she said. "But people here are trying to handle this the best they can."

Wind gusts of more than 40 mph pushed the fire dangerously close to many residential communities in the area, said Cal Fire spokesman Daniel Berlant.  Watch TV crew driven into fire Â»

"We were lucky that the winds did not pick up last night as it was predicted," he said. "But there are still some immediate threats."  Watch what's left of burned home in Big Sur Â»

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The mandatory evacuations in that area had been downgraded to an advisory Tuesday, according to local and federal fire officials. But the Basin Complex Fire was only 27 percent contained Wednesday, according to federal fire authorities. It has torched more than 86,700 acres, and containment is not expected until the end of the month.  Watch why fires could be related to global warming Â»

The nearby Indians Fire, in the Ventana Wilderness, was 97 percent contained after burning more than 81,000 acres, the U.S. Forest Service said.

Further south, in coastal Santa Barbara County, the Gap Fire, which has burned 9,710 acres, was 55 percent contained, the Forest Service said.

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LONDON, England (CNN)  -- They left home with hope in their hearts, thousands of fans true to the Liverpool anthem, dreaming of reaching another Wembley FA Cup Final.

The disaster at Hillsborough football stadium in 1989 resulted in the deaths of 96 football supporters.

But what began as a day out in the spring sunshine 20 years ago ended as the darkest hour in the history of British football.

I had settled into Row B Seat 2 of the press box in the south stand at Hillsborough, home to Sheffield Wednesday and neutral venue for the game. From there I would have had an uninterrupted view of the semifinal showdown between Liverpool and Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest.

Clough, one of the legends of the British game, had been denied an FA Cup Final with Forest a year earlier, when his side lost to Liverpool at the same stage of the competition and at the same venue.

The atmosphere in the ground for the 1989 semifinal exploded as the teams emerged onto the pitch. But none of us was prepared for what was to follow.

The match action lasted less than six minutes. I can't remember a single kick. What I do recall quite vividly are the scenes of distress, desperation and death at the Liverpool end that destroyed so many families and shocked the world.

Looking to my left and behind Liverpool keeper Bruce Grobbelaar's goal, I was drawn to a huge mushroom-like effect among the crowd in the central standing enclosures around kick-off time.  See Liverpool players and fans paying tribute to victims of Hillsborough disaster Â»

The match had not long started when the first signs of a major problem surfaced. Fans began frantically attempting to climb over the perimeter fence to escape the crush at the Leppings Lane end of the ground.

I didn't know it at the time, but the swell was the exit point of a tunnel that ran under the stand. Through it hundreds of Liverpool fans had attempted to make their way without realizing the two caged pens it led to were already overcrowded.

Many had the life squeezed out of them in that tunnel. Others were trampled or crushed to death on the terraces. The lucky ones clambered to safety, many collapsing on the pitch.

Some fans were hoisted up into the stand above by fellow supporters, but the main escape route was over the high perimeter fence and later through a small gate that was forced open as police -- who initially thought they were dealing with a pitch invasion -- recognized the true scale of the problem.

Advertising boards were used as makeshift stretchers and some of those being carried away had their heads covered by coats. The Sheffield Wednesday gymnasium became a mortuary.

The Liverpool end of the pitch resembled a casualty station with frantic efforts being made to treat the injured and save lives while others wandered aimlessly around the pitch in a daze.

I will always remember the bid to revive one young fan in front of the main stand. Those efforts seemed to go on forever before finally hundreds of spectators let out a huge cheer as the lad at last showed some sign of life. I still wonder to this day whether or not he made it.

Meanwhile I had an open phoneline to a copytaker at The Press Association and described those shocking events unfolding in front of me, including news of the first fatalities.

For the second time in four years I had gone to cover a football match and ended up filing a disaster report.

In 1985 I had been in Brussels with Liverpool to cover their European Cup final against Juventus, when 39 fans, mainly Italian, were killed at the Heysel stadium as a wall collapsed after trouble on the terraces. That match eventually went ahead after a delay of 85 minutes.

Within hhours of returning from Belgium, I was among a small group of football writers summoned to No. 10 Downing Street for a meeting with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Mrs Thatcher planned draconian measures to combat what became known as the English disease, but it was the appalling events at Sheffield that finally became the catalyst for change.

The Hillsborough tragedy was played out in full view of 53,000 spectators and TV cameras.

People who came to watch a football match went home haunted by scenes of carnage and chaos that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.

Later, in an area beneath the empty south stand, FA chief executive Graham Kelly faced media at an impromptu press conference and expressed his shock, sadness and sorrow. Understandably, he didn't have all the answers as questions were fired his way.

What led to the disaster is well documented. Lord Justice Taylor, a High Court judge commissioned by the government to produce a report, concluded that police operational errors were largely to blame for allowing the gates to be opened to relieve congestion outside the ground. Many questioned why the kickoff to the game had not been delayed.

English football was quick to react with perimeter fences pulled, followed by the phased-in arrival of all-seater stadia.

In the aftermath grieving fans turned Liverpool's Kop stand and the Anfield pitch into a shrine draped with thousands of scarves, flags and flowers. A permanent memorial to the victims was later erected adjacent to the Shankly Gates -- named after the club's most famous manager -- and which bear the title of the Reds' anthem: You'll Never Walk Alone.

The oldest victim at Hillsborough was 67, the youngest 10-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley, a cousin of current Liverpool captain and England international Steven Gerrard.

Gerrard was six weeks away from his ninth birthday at the time of tragedy. There is nothing Liverpool would want more than to mark the 20th anniversary season with at least one gleaming trophy.

They did it in 1989, beating Forest when the semifinal was later replayed, then going on to defeat city rivals Everton after extra time at Wembley. On that occasion they returned home with hope in their hearts.

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question: How many people were killed in the disaster?

answer: 96

question: Which current Liverpool player lost a family member in the Hillsborough disaster?

answer: Steven Gerrard.

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question: Which member of Steven Gerrard's family lost their life?

answer: cousin

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(CNN) -- A Florida TV anchor became an Internet sensation this week when she pressed Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden about whether Sen. Barack Obama's policies were Marxist.

WFTV-TV anchor Barbara West tells Larry King  she was doing her job as a reporter when she interviewed Sen. Joe Biden.

Critics said WFTV-TV anchor Barbara West of Orlando had an agenda and was asking biased questions. Biden responded, "Is this a joke?"

CNN's Larry King on Monday talked with West about the interview on "Larry King Live."

Larry King: Your recent grilling of Joe Biden has stirred up a lot of controversy. Let's take a look at part of it, and we'll get your comments. Watch.

[Video clip begins]  Watch as West interviews Biden Â»

Barbara West: You may recognize this famous quote. "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." That's from Karl Marx. How is Sen. Obama not being a Marxist if he's intending to spread the wealth around?

Sen. Joe Biden: Are you joking? Is this a joke?

West: No.

Biden: Or is that a real question?

West: That's a question.

Biden: He is not spreading the wealth around. He's talking about giving the middle class an opportunity to get back the tax breaks they used to have.

I know this has been a pretty mean campaign. I was on a television station the other day and doing a satellite feed to a major network in Florida. And the anchor quotes Karl Marx and says in a sense, "Isn't Barack Obama Karl Marx?" You know I mean folks, this stuff you're hearing, this stuff you're hearing in this campaign, some of it's pretty ugly. [Video clip ends]

King: All right, Barbara, what were you getting to, since generally the redistribution of the wealth is a graduated income tax?

West: Well, Larry, no, I don't believe that it is just a graduated income tax. I think a lot of people who are talking to me out on the street are saying they are very, very concerned that this idea of redistributing the wealth means taking it out of somebody's pocket who is a wage earner and putting it in somebody's pocket who refuses to work. And they're asking about. That's what they don't want. That is what they want to know, what does this really mean? My job as a journalist is to ask those questions and get those answers, and I don't believe I got answers at all.

King: Was the implication in the question that Barack Obama is a Marxist?

West: I was asking him to tell us about how Barack Obama's redistribution of wealth was different from that quote by Karl Marx, that's all I wanted to know.

... I'm not here to debate the issues. I am not a political pundit. ... I'm a journalist.  Watch as West defends her questions Â»

And I -- my job is to ask tough, probing questions of the candidates. I had a very short time to be able to do that, only about four minutes. There were issues that I wanted to cover, including the issues about ACORN and the abuses that they've done with voter registration, particularly here in Florida, and Florida is such a key state.

And also this issue of the redistribution of wealth, as well as Sen. Biden's comments about "You mark my words, in six months, Barack Obama will be tested."

King: I got you.

West: But it was his caveat afterward that was the issue that I was questioning, and that is it may not be readily apparent as to what, as to whether or not the actions or whatever he does are in fact the appropriate ones. And so America, stand with him and trust him.

King: I got you.

West: I just wanted answers to those questions.

King: The Orlando Sentinel reports that you are registered as a Republican; your husband is a Republican strategist. Is that true?

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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A 14-year-old who was trained to kill by radicals in the tribal regions of Pakistan now sits in a crowded classroom at a detention facility in Kabul. His only wish is to see his parents again.

Shakirullah, 14, is convicted of planning to carry out a suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

"I miss my parents, my mom and dad," Shakirullah says in soft tones. Like others in tribal regions, he goes by one name.

Shakirullah  is already a convicted terrorist for planning to carry out a suicide bombing. He says Muslim radicals lied and tricked him into becoming a would-be bomber. "I have been detained for trying to commit a suicide attack," he says.

He says his recruiters told him it was his mission as a Muslim to kill British and American soldiers because they were killing Muslims.  Watch teen say recruiters "cheated me" Â»

They told him that once he blew himself up he wouldn't die because God would save him for being a true Muslim.

Asked what he now thinks of Americans and Westerners, Shakirullah is calm, but quick in his response.

"I don't know. God knows what type of people they are, whether they are good or bad. I don't know them," he says.

Shakirullah now passes his hours in a cell block at a juvenile detention facility in Kabul. He is serving at least five years in detention. He is to be transferred to an adult prison in a couple of years, authorities say.

He hasn't heard from his family in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. He tried to send them a letter through the International Committee of the Red Cross but is not sure it reached them.

"I don't know what they are thinking. They have no news of me," he says.

On this day, Shakirullah attends a rehabilitation class, easily lost in the crowd of boys with shaved heads. All of the children are convicted for various crimes, including theft, fighting and even murder.

Three boys like Shakirullah are here, all guilty of planning to kill themselves and others after being recruited by terrorist groups.

With the increased violence in Afghanistan, international observers say they have seen more and more children being recruited by armed groups and national forces. The Taliban, which ruled Afghanistan with its strict Islamic rule from 1996 to 2001, has regrouped and launched a fierce insurgency.

"As you see in many places in the world, children are being used in armed conflict. They've been recruited as child soldiers; they've been recruited as armed groups. And the phenomena is now impacting, again, Afghanistan," says Catherine Mbengue, the UNICEF representative in Afghanistan.  Watch one boy's struggle begging for food on streets Â»

Inside the detention center, Shakirullah walks up to his cell, his sandals sliding across the tile floor.

The cell block is empty and has metal bunk beds lined across the wall and a television set, ready for the times they have electricity. Shakirullah shares this space with 10 other boys. He sits in the center of the room with a blanket draped around him.

He barely makes eye contact and looks away as soon as he does. He is shy, but forthright in his words. "I didn't want to do it but he forced me to go," he says of his recruiter.

Rubbing his face with his hand, he says he now spends his time dreaming of his life back home in rural Pakistan. His eyes begin to water and his voice becomes softer when he talks about missing his mother.

Asked what he misses most about her, he says simply, "A mother is a mother."

His was a life of farming and tranquility in Pakistan, he says. It was also a life that took a drastic turn when his father decided to send Shakirullah for studies at a madrassa.

He says his dad wanted him to learn more about Islam and the Quran, something he could not do himself. He says his father didn't know radicals ran the school.

In the madrassa, Shakirullah learned to recite the Quran in Arabic, not his native language. He relied solely on the fanatical interpretations the mullahs were giving him.

"When I finished reciting the Quran, a mullah then came to me and told me, 'Now that you have finished the Quran, you need to go and commit a suicide attack.' That I should go to Afghanistan to commit a suicide attack," he says.

The teenager wasn't given the chance to say goodbye to his parents or siblings when he was driven to the Pakistan-Afghan border and handed over to strangers.

He says he was taken to the southeastern province of Khost, a hotbed for terrorist activity in Afghanistan. Suicide attacks have risen in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led invasion to topple the Taliban began in late 2001, after the 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon.

Shakirullah says that before the police arrested him, he was learning how to drive a car but that he was not sure how he was supposed to carry out his attack.

Khost is the province where a suicide car bomb went off near a voter registration site this past Sunday, killing 16 people, 14 of whom were children.

At the juvenile detention facility, Shakirullah and the others are now being taught a different interpretation of Islam.

"The teachers educate them on Islam, and explain to them that the acts that they were doing is not right for them and for others," says Mir Fayaz ah-Din, who works and lives with the boys at the facility, mentoring them and helping them in their rehabilitation.

"The way you want to kill yourself and someone else -- it in itself is a big offense in Islam."

Shakirullah now says of his recruiters, "They cheated me."

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text: rehabilitation

text: class

text: easily

text: lost

text: in

text: the

text: crowd

text: of

text: boys

text: with

text: shaved

text: heads

text: All

text: of

text: the

text: children

text: are

text: convicted

text: for

text: various

text: crimes

text: including

text: theft

text: fighting

text: and

text: even

text: murder

text: Three

text: boys

text: like

text: Shakirullah

text: are

text: here

text: all

text: guilty

text: of

text: planning

text: to

text: kill

text: themselves

text: and

text: others

text: after

text: being

text: recruited

text: by

text: terrorist

text: groups

text: With

text: the

text: increased

text: violence

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: international

text: observers

text: say

text: they

text: have

text: seen

text: more

text: and

text: more

text: children

text: being

text: recruited

text: by

text: armed

text: groups

text: and

text: national

text: forces

text: The

text: Taliban

text: which

text: ruled

text: Afghanistan

text: with

text: its

text: strict

text: Islamic

text: rule

text: from

text: to

text: has

text: regrouped

text: and

text: launched

text: a

text: fierce

text: insurgency

text: As

text: you

text: see

text: in

text: many

text: places

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: children

text: are

text: being

text: used

text: in

text: armed

text: conflict

text: They

text: 've

text: been

text: recruited

text: as

text: child

text: soldiers

text: they

text: 've

text: been

text: recruited

text: as

text: armed

text: groups

text: And

text: the

text: phenomena

text: is

text: now

text: impacting

text: again

text: Afghanistan

text: says

text: Catherine

text: Mbengue

text: the

text: UNICEF

text: representative

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: Watch

text: one

text: boy

text: 's

text: struggle

text: begging

text: for

text: food

text: on

text: streets

text: Â

text: Inside

text: the

text: detention

text: center

text: Shakirullah

text: walks

text: up

text: to

text: his

text: cell

text: his

text: sandals

text: sliding

text: across

text: the

text: tile

text: floor

text: The

text: cell

text: block

text: is

text: empty

text: and

text: has

text: metal

text: bunk

text: beds

text: lined

text: across

text: the

text: wall

text: and

text: a

text: television

text: set

text: ready

text: for

text: the

text: times

text: they

text: have

text: electricity

text: Shakirullah

text: shares

text: this

text: space

text: with

text: other

text: boys

text: He

text: sits

text: in

text: the

text: center

text: of

text: the

text: room

text: with

text: a

text: blanket

text: draped

text: around

text: him

text: He

text: barely

text: makes

text: eye

text: contact

text: and

text: looks

text: away

text: as

text: soon

text: as

text: he

text: does

text: He

text: is

text: shy

text: but

text: forthright

text: in

text: his

text: words

text: I

text: did

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: do

text: it

text: but

text: he

text: forced

text: me

text: to

text: go

text: he

text: says

text: of

text: his

text: recruiter

text: Rubbing

text: his

text: face

text: with

text: his

text: hand

text: he

text: says

text: he

text: now

text: spends

text: his

text: time

text: dreaming

text: of

text: his

text: life

text: back

text: home

text: in

text: rural

text: Pakistan

text: His

text: eyes

text: begin

text: to

text: water

text: and

text: his

text: voice

text: becomes

text: softer

text: when

text: he

text: talks

text: about

text: missing

text: his

text: mother

text: Asked

text: what

text: he

text: misses

text: most

text: about

text: her

text: he

text: says

text: simply

text: A

text: mother

text: is

text: a

text: mother

text: His

text: was

text: a

text: life

text: of

text: farming

text: and

text: tranquility

text: in

text: Pakistan

text: he

text: says

text: It

text: was

text: also

text: a

text: life

text: that

text: took

text: a

text: drastic

text: turn

text: when

text: his

text: father

text: decided

text: to

text: send

text: Shakirullah

text: for

text: studies

text: at

text: a

text: madrassa

text: He

text: says

text: his

text: dad

text: wanted

text: him

text: to

text: learn

text: more

text: about

text: Islam

text: and

text: the

text: Quran

text: something

text: he

text: could

text: not

text: do

text: himself

text: He

text: says

text: his

text: father

text: did

text: n't

text: know

text: radicals

text: ran

text: the

text: school

text: In

text: the

text: madrassa

text: Shakirullah

text: learned

text: to

text: recite

text: the

text: Quran

text: in

text: Arabic

text: not

text: his

text: native

text: language

text: He

text: relied

text: solely

text: on

text: the

text: fanatical

text: interpretations

text: the

text: mullahs

text: were

text: giving

text: him

text: When

text: I

text: finished

text: reciting

text: the

text: Quran

text: a

text: mullah

text: then

text: came

text: to

text: me

text: and

text: told

text: me

text: Now

text: that

text: you

text: have

text: finished

text: the

text: Quran

text: you

text: need

text: to

text: go

text: and

text: commit

text: a

text: suicide

text: attack

text: That

text: I

text: should

text: go

text: to

text: Afghanistan

text: to

text: commit

text: a

text: suicide

text: attack

text: he

text: says

text: The

text: teenager

text: was

text: n't

text: given

text: the

text: chance

text: to

text: say

text: goodbye

text: to

text: his

text: parents

text: or

text: siblings

text: when

text: he

text: was

text: driven

text: to

text: the

text: Pakistan

text: Afghan

text: border

text: and

text: handed

text: over

text: to

text: strangers

text: He

text: says

text: he

text: was

text: taken

text: to

text: the

text: southeastern

text: province

text: of

text: Khost

text: a

text: hotbed

text: for

text: terrorist

text: activity

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: Suicide

text: attacks

text: have

text: risen

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: since

text: the

text: U.S

text: led

text: invasion

text: to

text: topple

text: the

text: Taliban

text: began

text: in

text: late

text: after

text: the

text: attacks

text: on

text: New

text: York

text: and

text: the

text: Pentagon

text: Shakirullah

text: says

text: that

text: before

text: the

text: police

text: arrested

text: him

text: he

text: was

text: learning

text: how

text: to

text: drive

text: a

text: car

text: but

text: that

text: he

text: was

text: not

text: sure

text: how

text: he

text: was

text: supposed

text: to

text: carry

text: out

text: his

text: attack

text: Khost

text: is

text: the

text: province

text: where

text: a

text: suicide

text: car

text: bomb

text: went

text: off

text: near

text: a

text: voter

text: registration

text: site

text: this

text: past

text: Sunday

text: killing

text: people

text: of

text: whom

text: were

text: children

text: At

text: the

text: juvenile

text: detention

text: facility

text: Shakirullah

text: and

text: the

text: others

text: are

text: now

text: being

text: taught

text: a

text: different

text: interpretation

text: of

text: Islam

text: The

text: teachers

text: educate

text: them

text: on

text: Islam

text: and

text: explain

text: to

text: them

text: that

text: the

text: acts

text: that

text: they

text: were

text: doing

text: is

text: not

text: right

text: for

text: them

text: and

text: for

text: others

text: says

text: Mir

text: Fayaz

text: ah

text: Din

text: who

text: works

text: and

text: lives

text: with

text: the

text: boys

text: at

text: the

text: facility

text: mentoring

text: them

text: and

text: helping

text: them

text: in

text: their

text: rehabilitation

text: The

text: way

text: you

text: want

text: to

text: kill

text: yourself

text: and

text: someone

text: else

text: it

text: in

text: itself

text: is

text: a

text: big

text: offense

text: in

text: Islam

text: Shakirullah

text: now

text: says

text: of

text: his

text: recruiters

text: They

text: cheated

text: me

question: what does he miss most?

answer: my parents, my mom and dad,"

text: my parents, my mom and dad,"

question: who duped him to become a would-be bomber

answer: Muslim radicals

text: Muslim radicals

question: What does the teen miss most?

answer: parents,

text: parents,

question: What is the detention facility teaching?

answer: a different interpretation of Islam

text: a different interpretation of Islam

question: How long is the teen serving?

answer: at least five years in detention.

text: at least five years in detention.