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Taliban kills 10 INTL Medical aid workers

  • 08-08-2010 8:23am
    #1
    old_aussie
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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/07/AR2010080700822.html

    Taliban fighters gunned down a 10-member international medical team, including six Americans, in the wilds of northern Afghanistan, the aid group and local officials said Saturday, in an ambush that highlighted the growing dangers faced by foreign charity organizations in the country.


    The aid workers, who also included two Afghans, a German and a Briton, were attacked Thursday in a remote forested area of Badakhshan province as they were returning from a mission to provide eye care to rural villagers, according to provincial police and the International Assistance Mission, the Kabul-based group that organized the trip.


    The ambush was one of the deadliest strikes against foreign aid workers in the nearly nine-year Afghanistan war.

    They were killed because the had a bible with them.


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  • #2
    Wacker
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    old_aussie wrote: »
    They were killed because the had a bible with them.

    Awful story, but I doubt they would have been spared had the Bible not been present, tbh.


  • #3
    PDN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,686 ✭✭✭✭PDN


    Terrible event.

    I know a young medical doctor from the US who works with this organisation in Afghanistan. At this point I have no idea if she is among those slain or not. They are a Christian organisation which concentrates on alleviating suffering by encouraging doctors to donate their time and skills to thedeveloping world.


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