Louis Maxwell died heroically in Afghanistan.

​Much attention has been paid in recent days to secret documents released via WikiLeaks and published in the New York Times that detail America's crumbling military adventure in Afghanistan. But it's been clear for some time that the Afghan government couldn't be trusted as a partner in war. Chuck Strouse, the editor of Miami New Times, has been writing about the case of Miami Gardens native Louis Maxwell, a homegrown hero who died while serving as a bodyguard for United Nations monitors who had deemed the election of Afghan President Hamid Karzai a fraud. Strouse's three-part series (Part I, Part II) wraps up this week with a grim conclusion: The most likely explanation for Maxwell's death is that he was the victim of an attack approved by the Karzai administration. As our Featured Story of the Week, we recommend, "Louis Maxwell's Forgotten Murder."