AP: The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he’d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency — that the child injured on the battlefield in Afghanistan was on death’s door, with neither a family nor a country to claim her. A lawyer for the federal government stood up. “That is not what happened,” she told the judge: almost everything he’d believed about the baby was untrue. Click here to read more (external link).