Posted on 10/20/2008 3:05:06 AM PDT by Stoat
Gayle Williams worked for SERVE Afghanistan, which describes itself as a Christian charity, confirmed the incident but would not give any details.
'Our people carried out this attack in District 3 of Kabul this morning at 7am,' the Taliban's spokesman Zabiullah Mujahed told The Times. 'The reason that we killed her was because she was spreading Christianity."
'Two armed men sitting on a motorbike shot her dead. Some bullets hit her body and some hit her leg and when police got there she was dead,' Bashary said.
Afghan policemen pass by blood stains on a pavement in Kabul October 20, 2008. Unknown gunmen killed a foreign woman working for an aid agency in the Afghan capital early today
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
British aid worker shot dead by Taliban - Telegraph
Taliban insurgents killed three female aid workers and their Afghan driver in an ambush just outside Kabul in August, the bloodiest single attack on foreign humanitarian workers in Afghanistan in recent years.
Rising violence has already forced aid agencies to restrict humanitarian work at a time when drought and high prices are putting more people under pressure.
Evil. May she rest in peace.
Yes, jihad is evil and so are the jihadis.
Perhaps coming soon to a town square near you.
Brit female shot in Afghanistan The Sun NewsCampaignsOur Boys
Gayle Williams, who worked for a Christian charity called SERVE Afghanistan which helps disabled children, was gunned down on the way to work in the south of the capital, Kabul.
Eyewitnesses said two men on a motorbike pulled up alongside her and fired six shots before driving off.
Witness builder Daulad Khan said: "The two men stopped right next to her and one of them shot her with a pistol. She collapsed immediately.
"There was bloody everywhere."
The woman was raced to hospital but she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Gayle had been working in Afghanistan for almost three years when she was killed.
Friend Mike Lyth, who is chairman of the Board of SERVE Afghanistan, said: “She was a close personal friend, it’s an absolute tragedy.
Now that the Taliban have started to actually target NGO workers, both Afghan and international, it begins to be less and less tenable for groups like us to work there”.
Gayle, had been working in Kandahar until staff decided it was too dangerous for foreigners.
Mr Lyth added: “We began to hear that foreign groups were under surveillance. We felt it wasn’t right to expose our foreigners to that sort of situation”.
He said SERVE would have to reassess whether it continues to keep its 15 international staff in Afghanistan.
Until six months ago, Gayle had been running a project in Kandahar city, the birthplace of the Taliban, to help disabled children.
When she moved to Kabul she continued to administer the project remotely.
The attack happened just before 8am local time in a district of Kabul called Kart-e Char which has become increasingly volatile in recent weeks.
Last night, at around 11pm, one of Afghanistan's royal family was kidnapped nearby.
This further underscores the difference between evil Islam and benevolent Christianity. Prayers for her family and other workers.
Or, for that matter, Colin Powell or George "Religion of Peace" Bush?
Cheers!
tragic. but doesn´t suprise me. the taliban are not famous for their tolerance against other thinking people (or people in generall).
The Afghan proverb 'Qatara qatara, darya mesha!', 'Drop by drop, a river is made!', summarises well an
important principle for us in SERVE. It is our belief that what might seem small, or as a 'drop' today, is the
beginning of a bright tomorrow.
I think none of us can adequately measure what these 'drops' mean in the lives of the people we are
touching. Eyes that were blind, that can now see! Faces of despair, now beaming with hope! An orchard,
where there once was a desert! Health, instead of sickness! A better future, in place of one filled with
poverty! This is what SERVE is all about, bringing hope to individual lives, and investing in the potential of
what these lives hold.
The SERVE team of Afghan staff and International expatriate volunteers has, in a tangible way, touched the
lives of thousands of Afghans. I commend the men and woman that have over the years made SERVE a
reality, for their commitment, dedication, and a job well done. I also want to especially thank our partnering
agencies, which have trusted us to be an expression of their own heart of compassion for the peoples of
Afghanistan.
A combination of civil war, political instability, economic ruin and severe drought continues to leave
Afghanistan as one of the poorest and neediest countries in the world. For the ordinary Afghan life is very
hard. For the most needy, the disabled, widows, children and the poor, it's unbearable. It's for those lives
hardest hit that SERVE has a special place in its heart. It's SERVE's hope that the fruit of these 'drops' today
will be 'streams in the desert' tomorrow!
Thank you for helping us, SERVING AFGHANISTAN.
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SERVE Afghanistan's purpose is to
express God's love and bring hope by
serving the people of Afghanistan,
especially the needy, as we seek to
address personal, social and
environmental needs.
(’Our people carried out this attack in District 3 of Kabul this morning at 7am,’ the Taliban’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahed told The Times. ‘The reason that we killed her was because she was spreading Christianity.” )
Since YOUR religion is the one that is dangerous to the world, would it be okay of “our people” (the civilized and free world) to begin killing you for spreading your Islamofacism??
How tragic; radical Islam is without a doubt evil personified. They prove over and over again that they’re nothing more than subhuman savages.
And we’re letting these same people in over here in droves. What with political correctness and multiculturalism running amuck, I’m beginning to wonder whether there might be something to the Mayan calendar’s ending in 2012.
The muslim world cannot be reformed, only quarantined from the civilized world.
Brave sumbitches ain’t they?
Gunned down: Gayle Williams, who was shot dead in Kabul, Afghanistan, this morning
Gayle was murdered shortly before she was due to arrive at the office. Reports say that two men on a motorcycle shot her and then fled the scene
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But the British-registered charity she worked for, SERVE Afghanistan, said this was a 'convenient excuse' for the grim killing, which it believes was 'completely opportunistic'.
Miss Williams, from London, had been with the organisation for two-and-a-half years, helping to raise awareness of disabilities in Afghan communities and rehabilitating disabled people in their homes.
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'Knowing Gayle she would not have wanted anything more for her life than to die in His service.'
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