Sunday, August 08, 2010

It's Sunday

The Taliban said Saturday they had killed "Christian missionaries" working in remote northern Afghanistan where the bullet-riddled bodies of six Americans, one German and a British national were found.

Three women were among the group of foreign eye doctors working for the aid organisation International Assistance Mission (IAM), said its executive director Dirk Frans.

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The Taliban spokesman said the group had been lost in the forest and were killed as they tried to escape.

"They were carrying Persian language bibles, a satellite-tracking device and maps," he said.

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The group of eight ophthalmologists had been travelling with three Afghans between Badakhshan and Nuristan provinces and spent a few nights in the forest, [according to Head of Badakhshan provincial police Aqa Noor Kintoz].

"On the last day they were confronted by a group of armed men who lined them up and shot them. Their money and belongings were all stolen," said Kintoz.

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The police chief said local villagers had warned the group not to enter the dangerous forested area, but they had insisted they would be safe because they were doctors, according to Saifullah's statement.

  Raw Story

Doctors, and maybe missionaries.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

4 comments:

  1. this is what gets me...they must convert the heathen. no need to help them otherwise.


    labelle :(

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  2. the heathen isn't always so amenable to conversion...

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  3. take me for example :)

    labelle

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  4. at least you didn't boil anyone alive or chop off any heads.

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