Target, ‘war hero dog’ who saved 50 soldiers in Afghanistan, mistakenly put to death in AZ shelter
FLORENCE, Ariz. — When a suicide bomber entered an American military barracks in Afghanistan in February, it was not American soldiers but Afghan stray dogs that confronted him. Target and two other dogs snarled, barked and snapped at the man, who detonated his bomb at the entrance to the facility but did not kill anyone. The dogs were from the Dand Aw Patan district, in the eastern Paktia Province near the Pakistani border. One died of…