From Jihad Unspun, credited to The Guardian
Five people, including three members of Médecins sans FrontiÚres, were killed in north-west Afghanistan yesterday in an attack claimed to have been carried out by the Taliban. .... The team of aid workers were ambushed in their car near Khair Khana, a village in the Badghis province more than 300 miles to the west of the capital, Kabul.
| Northwest Afghanistan? That's a new front for the Taliban if it's true; they got booted from there rather thoroughly in the war. |
A spokesperson for MSF, the international medical aid organisation which works in war zones around the world, often at great personal risk to its international members and local staff, told the Associated Press that the workers had been the victims of a "terrorist-type of attack". It is understood that one of the workers was Dutch, one Swiss and one Norwegian. Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, reportedly a spokesman for the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to AP. He warned that more attacks would follow. "The Taliban was responsible for this attack," Latifi said. "Those international aid workers were working for the policy of America. There will be more of these attacks in the future." The governor of Badghis, Azizullah Afzali, identified the two Afghans killed in the latest attack as Fazel Ahmad, a translator, and Bismillah, who was a driver for MSF. "It’s the first time anything like this has happened here," he said. .... In February, five aid workers were shot and killed not far from Kabul after their car broke down. Last month three UN election workers, including two British security consultants, were killed in the eastern province of Nuristan.
Jihad Unspun is a zealous advocate of the Taliban. |