Four humanitarian workers slain in Taliban ambush

[dArKeR]

Four Afghan aid workers were killed in an ambush Saturday, the latest victims in a bloody Taliban-led insurgency threatening plans for midyear elections. A US soldier died in a mine blast, but the military said it was unclear if it was an attack.

The anti-tank mine exploded under a Humvee in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing the soldier and wounding nine others.

Investigators were examining whether the blast, northwest of the city of Ghazni, was a targeted attack on the patrol "or just a leftover mine," Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Hilferty said. Afghanistan is littered with old munitions from more than two decades of war.

On Saturday, four Afghans working for a de-mining agency were fatally shot in an ambush in the west of the country, officials said.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/02/16/2003098973

[PartyPooper]

1. Yep. Things are just hunky dory over there.

NOT!

[Woman of the Phoenix]

2. Well, you know the entire world

is safer since we captured (rescued?) Saddam!