American Woman Kidnapped In Afghanistan

Aid Worker And Driver Taken At Gunpoint In Kandahar

(AP)  Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were driving through a residential section of southern Afghanistan's largest city early Saturday, a provincial governor said.

The two were stopped by gunmen inside the city of Kandahar around 8 a.m. while the woman was being driven to work, said Gov. Asadullah Khalid. He blamed the kidnappings on the "enemy of Islam and the enemy of Afghanistan."

Several Westerners - including two German construction workers and two Italian journalists - have been kidnapped in Afghanistan in the last year, but this was the first kidnapping of an American in recent memory.

Traveling around Kandahar city has turned increasingly dangerous in the last year, as the Taliban insurgency has spread throughout southern Afghanistan. Western civilians who operate there often travel with armed guards and with extreme caution. The area is rife with Taliban militants and also with criminals linked to the country's booming opium poppy trade.

A Taliban spokesman said he had no immediate information that the Islamic militia was behind the kidnappings.

Khalid said the 49-year-old American was wearing a burqa when she was taken. She worked for the aid agency Asian Rural Life Development Foundation, he said.

U.S. Embassy officials were looking into the report, an embassy official said on condition he not be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Khalid said the gunmen had not contacted the government or the woman's aid organization. He said police and intelligence officials were working to find her. He said the woman has been in Afghanistan for several years.

In a likely plea to the woman's captors, Khalid noted that the American respected Afghan traditions by wearing the burqa and speaking the local languages. She did not travel with armed guards, he said.

Projects run by the Asian Rural Life Development Foundation are located around the city of Kandahar and include food for work, irrigation rehabilitation, health care and restoration projects, according to the group's Web site.

Associated Press writer Jason Straziuso contributed to this report from Kabul.

[dmhphils]

Becasue of you we have THOUSANDS of American''''s MURDERED in a War based on LIES and you attack people because they use their rights to believe as the wish as far as Religion is concerned?
Posted by MCVet at 09:50 AM : Jan 27, 2008
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Who''s attacking? These boards are for energetic and informative comments. If you don''t like it, go to an Arab country where they won''t let you comment about anything against Allah.

BTW.....you are one of the most belligerent posters on this board.

[Con Mohrat]

I''ve gone to the site that has ALL the 935 Lies told by the Piece of Human Trash YOU call a President and EVERY LAST one of them are LIES... there isn''t a TRUTH in the bunch.. NOT ONE! Posted by MCVet at 06:35 AM : Jan 27, 2008
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The Viet Nam War Coward has made the number 935 synonymous with the number 666.

He has disgraced the Presidency of the United States so much so it would be foolish for any American to ever believe an American president again. And leaders of foreign nations would be wise to note this well.

That War Coward said he was a born again Christian.
I wonder how that sits with other born-agains. He has, by his actions, gave rise to the question "Does Jesus exists at all, to forgive 935 times for the same sin, or is Jesus the figment of a deviant''s wild imagination."

[runningralph]

offtheback,
What part of the constitution requires you to question the government. I missed that part. A right is not a requirement. Are you the person who posted a while back that it was your duty to harass policemen when they were trying to do their job? If you think you have a mandate to defy authority you will never be satisfied with any governance. You are an anarchist.

[prinzowhales]

One has to question the sanity of any civilian of any of the nations currently at war with the Afghanis to be running about the country. They could well be legitimately executed as spies...If the lady was seized by the Taliban, I hope they will show the same compassion that they showed to the Koreans and release her.

[jowand]

Bin Laden CAN''''T be as bad as our OWN Religious NUTS, he can''''t be. I mean day after day these low life creeps are on here refusing to address the mountian of lies that caused the war but anyone who wants to do so is attacked as a supporter of the Enemy... never mind that the guy who attacked us ISN''''T in nor was NEVER connected to IRAQ. That doesn''''t matter, Kill all Muslims they say! Sounds an awlful lot like a guy in Germany during the 30''''s now doesn''''t it? Sieg Heil and Amen
Posted by MCVet at 09:50 AM : Jan 27, 2008

Your one unhinged super-duper-nut-job Herman G

[mcvet]

Sorry Feely......you can''''t pass. Jesus is the only way around death or hell. You reject Him and death and hell is all you get.

The world is already condemned because they do not believe in the Son of God.


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Posted by noseonurface at 08:16 AM : Jan 27, 2008
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Do you religious Nazi''s honestly think this does you any good? Becasue of you we have THOUSANDS of American''s MURDERED in a War based on LIES and you attack people because they use their rights to believe as the wish as far as Religion is concerned? Honestly folks I''m not real sure who is the enemy here... Bin Laden CAN''T be as bad as our OWN Religious NUTS, he can''t be. I mean day after day these low life creeps are on here refusing to address the mountian of lies that caused the war but anyone who wants to do so is attacked as a supporter of the Enemy... never mind that the guy who attacked us ISN''T in nor was NEVER connected to IRAQ. That doesn''t matter, Kill all Muslims they say! Sounds an awlful lot like a guy in Germany during the 30''s now doesn''t it? Sieg Heil and Amen

[offtheback]

I see j-whitman''''s on here again believing in the words of Adolph Hitler.

Kind of like how he believes in the words of Bin Laden and Ahmadenijad, on how America and Israel are the bad guys.


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Posted by singinrick

Hey genius, I sugest you read some history and lay off the fiction the fiction for a while. It is our constitutional duty as citizens and patriots to question the government. Just say no to the kool-aid.

[dmhphils]

Re: "Jesus holds the keys to death and hell."

Sound like a tough sell. I''''ll pass.

Posted by FeelFree1 at 08:12 AM : Jan 27, 2008
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Sorry Feely......you can''t pass. Jesus is the only way around death or hell. You reject Him and death and hell is all you get.

The world is already condemned because they do not believe in the Son of God.

[feelfree1]

Re: "...a loser "religion" with a dead end."

These appear to be common traits of religions/cults in general.

Re: "Jesus holds the keys to death and hell."

Sound like a tough sell. I''ll pass.

[dmhphils]

Don''''t you wish that you had the courage in your convictions
Posted by FeelFree1 at 07:47 AM : Jan 27, 2008
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Feely....if you had the courage of your convictions, you should be strappin some C4 on your belly and lighten it up !