2 Canadian aid workers among those killed in Afghan ambush. A third worker an American citizen was also killed along with their local Afghani Driver.
PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan (AP) - Gunmen wielding assault rifles ambushed a U.S. aid organization's vehicle one province south of Kabul on Wednesday, killing an American-Trinidadian aid worker along with a Canadian and a British-Canadian colleague, officials said.
Winkler said the women were a dual American-Trinidadian citizen, a dual British-Canadian citizen and a Canadian citizen. Earlier, an Afghan police official had said the women were American, Canadian and Irish.
The three women worked for the New York-based International Rescue Committee and were attacked in Logar province while traveling to Kabul, said Abdullah Khan, the deputy counterterrorism director in Logar. The women's Afghan driver was also killed, said Khan.
Shirley Case, 30, of Williams Lake, B.C.
British-Canadian Jacqueline Kirk, 40, of Outremont, Quebec
Nicole Dial, 32, an American-Trinidadian
Mohammad Aimal, 25, the Afghan driver
At Logar proe's Pul-e-Alam hospital, Dr. Mir Mabub Shah said all four bodies had multiple bullet wounds. Three female Afghan nurses covered the three victims in a white cloth shroud as they placed them in wooden coffins.
Abdurrahman Khan, an IRC driver, was sobbing as he loaded two of the bodies onto the back of a truck, as a convoy of half a dozen vehicles set off for Kabul.
They were here helping Afghan people, Khan said of the women. They were not carrying weapons.
The attack was carried out by five men brandishing assault rifles who stepped out of a small village area and fired at the IRC vehicles, said Khan, citing an Afghan IRC employee wounded in the attack who was traveling in a second vehicle.
Khan said the women's vehicle, a white SUV, was riddled with hundreds of bullets. It had stickers on the side of the vehicle saying IRC. The women were traveling from the eastern city of Gardez to Kabul when they were attacked, he said. Roadside bomb injures 5 soldiers in Zhari district
Elsewhere on Wednesday, five Canadian soldiers were slightly injured when their armoured vehicle struck a roadside bomb.
M/Cpls, Josh Roberts and Erin Doyle are expected to be repatriated in Trenton today.
The killers and attackers of all these fine people are the lowest of the low. Fanatical Zealots who want to inflict their subservient government on poor souls. The Aid workers killed were in Afghanistan trying to improve life for the common man. The soldiers were doing their duty as both peacekeepers and NATO deployed troops. Trying to rebuild a shattered society.
NATO and the rest of the free world should be increasing their operations against any and all of the taliban morons.
Yes some readers may call this a RANT, however it is my personal belief that we must destroy these Zealots as soon as possible. Using any and all means possible.
Please remember these aid workers as well as our soldiers sailors and airmen who put their lives in HARMS WAY to help the world.
Nil Sine Labore
Robby
