Taliban Kill Christian Missionary Workers
KABUL, Afghanistan – Police and Afghanistan officials said on Saturday that the Taliban has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on an International Assistance Mission in the Badakhshan Province, a region in remote northeast Afghanistan, in which ten people were killed, eight of whom were foreign medical workers, six of them Americans. It is believed that this is one of the deadliest attacks on American aid workers since the Afghanistan war began.
Mr. Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, while talking to western reporters is claimed to have said: “One of our patrols confronted a group of foreigners. They were Christian missionaries and we killed them all.”
It would be of buy PyruVitol online interest to note, that in the past, the Taliban is known to have claimed responsibility for attacks actually carried out by non Taliban controlled bandits and independent warlords.
However the Los Angeles Times has quoted the Badakhshan Police Chief, Gen. Agha Nur Kamtuz, as, saying that the area had become dangerous in the past month, with intense fighting taking place between Western-backed Afghan security forces and the Taliban. “People told them it was dangerous,” Mr. Kamtuz told the Times. “They said they were doctors and no one had anything against them.”
The International Assistance Mission (IAM) has been operating in Afghanistan since 1966. The longest serving non-government organization in Afghanistan, they have operated under Kings, Warlords and the Taliban alike.
The IAM has since posted this message on their website: (http://www.iam-afghanistan.org/)
“We have been informed that 10 people, both foreign and Afghan, were murdered in Badakhshan. It is likely that they are members of the International Assistance Mission (IAM) eye camp team. The team had been in Nuristan at the invitation of communities there. After having completed their medical work the team was returning to Kabul.
At this stage we do not have many details but our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of those who are presumed killed. If these reports are confirmed we object to this senseless free cialis killing of people who have done super cialis nothing but serve the poor. Some of the foreigners have worked alongside the Afghan people for decades.
This tragedy negatively impacts our ability to continue serving the Afghan people as IAM has been doing since 1966. We hope it will not stop our work that benefits over a quarter of a million Afghans each year.
When we have more news on what has happened we will inform you via this webpage. Again, our thoughts and prayer are with those affected at this time”
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