Let's just face the facts. Linda Norgrove was a dead woman...long before today's rescue attempt by NATO forces. The Taliban simply do not let hostages go and at some point in time, they would have given up on ransoms and trade value and simply killed her, so perhaps, at least this way she realized there was a chance of her finding freedom again...but alas, her Taliban captors did kill her today during the failed rescue attempt.
From the article at DAWN:
But as is par for the course for the bloodthirsty Taliban...they couldn't simply release this woman when they realized they had been found. Hell no. They had to kill her. For the sake of killing her. Let vengeance be had on her captors...let their deaths be slow, let their realization that Allah is a lie be final and vivid.
From the article at DAWN:
A British aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan last month has been killed by her captors during a rescue bid and four Nato soldiers died in an insurgent ambush, the latest deaths in an increasingly bloody conflict.Now, I have no doubts that these were U.S. troops that attempted the rescue but we have to realize just how difficult a mission like this is against the Taliban - they own the countryside...they have eyes and ears on every mountain, in every valley, in every tree line. Obviously, we have no details here whether our troops were brought in on blackhawks or if this was a long ground hike into the area - we don't even know if Norgrove was in a village or out in the surrounding areas.
Linda Norgrove, 36, who worked for a US aid group, had been abducted on Sept. 26 along with three Afghan co-workers when they visited a project in a remote part of Kunar province, a lawless region bordering Pakistan.
“Responsibility for this tragic outcome rests squarely with the hostage takers. From the moment they took her, her life was under grave threat,” British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement on Saturday.
He gave no further details on the Friday night rescue bid.
But a British Foreign Office source said US troops had attempted the rescue. Norgrove, an ex-UN worker, headed a $150million US aid project designed to build local economies.
But as is par for the course for the bloodthirsty Taliban...they couldn't simply release this woman when they realized they had been found. Hell no. They had to kill her. For the sake of killing her. Let vengeance be had on her captors...let their deaths be slow, let their realization that Allah is a lie be final and vivid.
British hostage in Afghanistan killed in rescue bid
KABUL: A British aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan last month has been killed by her captors during a rescue bid and four Nato soldiers died in an insurgent ambush, the latest deaths in an increasingly bloody conflict.
President Hamid Karzai has sought tribal support for a Nato-led offensive against the Taliban in their southern heartland to try and turn the tide in a conflict that has dragged on for more than nine years.
Linda Norgrove, 36, who worked for a US aid group, had been abducted on Sept. 26 along with three Afghan co-workers when they visited a project in a remote part of Kunar province, a lawless region bordering Pakistan.
“Responsibility for this tragic outcome rests squarely with the hostage takers. From the moment they took her, her life was under grave threat,” British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement on Saturday.
He gave no further details on the Friday night rescue bid.
But a British Foreign Office source said US troops had attempted the rescue. Norgrove, an ex-UN worker, headed a $150million US aid project designed to build local economies.
Her death highlights the increasing dangers faced by aid workers in Afghanistan, where insurgents and other armed groups hold sway in many parts of the country.
“This is devastating news,” said James Boomgard, president of her organization, DAI, a private company involved in development.
In August, eight foreign medical workers, including a British female doctor, as well as two Afghans, were killed by unidentified gunmen in the remote northeast. Insurgents are still holding two French journalists seized last December.
The rescue attempt was not the first such operation. A raid that freed New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, a Briton, from his Afghan captors last year provoked anger after his Afghan colleague and a British soldier were killed.
The Afghan war is weighing increasingly on US President Barack Obama's administration as he and his Nato allies face pressure at home to end the unpopular war.
The focus now is increasingly on possible talks between Karzai and the Taliban.
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I simply do not believe that we should have aid workers in Afghanistan unless they are trained military, now out of the service. That means we would have no aid workers in Afghanistan.
People are free to make their own choices and I guess they can't find someone here or in peaceful third world countries (if there is such a thing) to help. Thirty-six is very young. I am so sorry her life was ended in this barbaric manner by barbarians. God bless her. She was only trying to help those who cannot help themselves.
Word on the street was that it wasn't SF even though some reporters say it was. No SF was in that area, so maybe Delta or SAS. I am willing to bet SAS. ;)
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