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A French United Nations worker was shot and killed Sunday by a man on a motorcycle who opened fire on her car. Her driver was wounded. Bettina Goislard, 29, was the first U.N. staff member slain in Afghanistan .. since the fall of the Taliban regime, said David Singh, spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Afghanistan... "Two men on a motorbike drove by her UNHCR vehicle in Ghazni bazaar, with the passenger rider opening fire at point-blank range on the vehicle," Singh said in Kabul, the Afghan capital. "One international staff member, a French female national, suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital." Shortly afterward, Afghan police fired at the motorcycle, injuring one of the two men and arresting them both, said Ahmad Zia Masood, a spokesman for Ghazni’s governor.
| I'd start low with the truncheons, and not work any higher... |
Ghazni Gov. Asadullah Khan said the two men were Taliban fighters. He would not identify them by name but said in an interview: "They are in our custody. We are investigating them. Maybe we will arrest more Taliban." ....
| That would be a heck of a good idea... |
The United Nations has about 800 international staff members in Afghanistan where it also employs several thousand Afghans.
rational people realize that terrorists don’t use nuance to discriminate targets, but undoubtedly many UN workers think otherwise |