1.   Military officials say the Marine acted in self-defense when the goat herder began firing his rifle in the direction of the camouflaged patrol.

2.   The intruders were spotted not by army patrols or the border security force but by a goat herder who chanced upon the strangers in March.

3.   Hernandez, a goat herder, was carrying a rifle used to shoot coyotes at the time and soldiers had mistaken him for an armed drug runner.

4.   On this day, the goat herder from the edge of the Sahara Desert was keeping watch over his livestock in an Ivory Coast market.