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Afghanistan
Two French aid workers missing in Afghanistan
2007-04-05
PARIS - Two French aid workers and three Afghan employees have gone missing in Afghanistan, the French foreign ministry said Wednesday. The aid organisation Terre dÂ’enfance (ChildrenÂ’s Land) alerted the foreign ministry about the disappearance on Tuesday morning.
Great name for a charity -- did they think Afghanistan qualified?
‘The foreign ministry and our embassy in Kabul is attentively following this case and we are in liaison with local authorities and the French NGO,’ said foreign ministry spokesman Denis Simonneau, who declined to give further details.

Terre dÂ’enfance is running a humanitarian project in Zaranj in southwest Afghanistan, near the border with Iran, where the two aid workers and eight Afghans worked. Reached by AFP, an official with Terre dÂ’enfance declined to give details about the aid workers.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  Terre can be translated as land or Earth depending on context. And enfance is childhood.

So Earth of Childhood
Posted by: JFM   2007-04-05 08:45  

#2  tw - Is there a difference?
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-04-05 08:39  

#1  Perhaps the terrorists can't tell the difference between French cross-worshipping dhimmis and Italian ones.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-04-05 07:36  

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