Monday - October 20, 2008

Woman aid worker gunned down by Taliban motorbike killers in Kabul for ‘spreading Christianity.

One of the comments posted at the Daily Mail on this story has this to say.

The poster does have a valid point.  Surely the poor woman must have known how dangerous was her position.  Maybe she felt safe and so gave no thought to it.  I have to feel sorry for her and her family, even if I think she just didn’t belong there.  Well, thinking about it I guess help has to come from somewhere.  But I wonder just how much actual good it all does.  That place has been a stone age culture since forever.  And why do some Christians think they are duty bound to convert anyone else if those others are perfectly content with what they already have and believe in?  I don’t know if they’re brave or foolhardy. Maybe a bit of both?  Still, it is damn sad.

And Colin Powell doesn’t approve the way Republicans on the right treat with or view muslims.  Gee, can’t understand that either. They are rational, civilized people who belong to a religion of peace after all.  quick ... where’s the barf bag? 

A PS for BMEWS viewers least you think I can’t spell.  I refuse to spell muslim or islam with caps. I’m not certain anymore but I think I may have picked that up from Skipper, and so it will remain.

British woman aid worker gunned down by Taliban motorbike killers in Kabul for ‘spreading Christianity’

Last updated at 12:58 PM on 20th October 2008

A British woman working for a Christian charity helping disabled Afghans was shot dead by the Taliban in Kabul as she walked to work early this morning, officials said.

Gayle Williams worked for SERVE Afghanistan, which describes itself as a Christian charity. It confirmed the incident but would not give any details.

‘Our people carried out this attack in District 3 of Kabul this morning at 7am,’ the Taliban’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahed said.

‘The reason that we killed her was because she was spreading Christianity.’

A government spokesman, Zemarai Bashary, said: ‘Two armed men sitting on a motorbike shot her dead. Some bullets hit her body and some hit her leg and when police got there she was dead.’

A witness said he had seen the woman walk along the same route to work in the upmarket western Kart-e-Char suburb for about two years.

A builder, who gave his name as Daulad, said he had heard seven shots and when he looked into the street he saw a woman lying on a footpath.

It is rare that foreign nationals are killed in the Afghan capital, although there have been several kidnappings.

There have been three assassinations in the southern city of Kandahar in recent weeks, also carried out by men on motorbikes.

The insurgent Taliban - in government between 1996 and 2001 - claimed responsibility for two of the killings involving the city’s most senior policewoman and a government official.

The third was of a top tribal elder shot dead with his son, a former bodyguard of President Hamid Karzai, as they left a mosque early in the morning.

An NGO security group said last week that attacks on aid workers by insurgents in Afghanistan were at the highest level in six years.

There had been 146 security incidents involving non-government organisations to September this year compared to 135 for the whole of 2007, the Afghanistan NGO Safety Office (ANSO) said in a quarterly report.

They included 28 killings, among them five international workers, and 72 abductions, the group said.

Among the victims were three Western women aid workers with the International 90 Rescue Committee who were gunned down with their driver about 30 miles outside of Kabul in August.

The women were a British and Canadian citizen, a Canadian national and a Trinidad and American national.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the murders, the worst involving the foreign aid community in years.

ANSO said in its report that it was reluctant to support the idea that NGOs were being directly targeted for their own activities rather than for being mistakenly associated with the international military forces in Afghanistan.

The watchdog urged aid groups to begin ‘strongly reinforcing their independence and moving away from political and military actors’ for their own protection.

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Posted by Drew458     on 10/20/2008 at 07:06 AM   
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