'Increasing Kidnapping Cases Worsen Afghanistan's Already Chaotic Situation', China View, 3 November 2008
EXCERPT: "The war-torn Afghanistan has seen deteriorating of security in the past months as criminal gangs and militants have resorted to abduction of foreigners and attacking soft targets as a new tactic to destabilize security and defame the government. In a latest move, unknown armed personnel abducted a French aid worker from Kabul Monday morning after shooting dead a passerby who attempted to foil the abductors' design. Taliban militants have denied involvement in the abduction, but police at the site blamed the enemies of peace, a term usually used against anti-government militants including Taliban, for the incident and denounced it. Barbaric attacks on soft targets including non-combatant foreigners in the capital city Kabul has been on rise over the past couple of months. In the past October, unknown armed men abducted a Canadian journalist from Qargha district of Kabul which was followed by assassination of a British female aid worker Gayle Williams at daylight on charge of preaching Christianity in Kabul and Taliban immediately claimed responsibility."
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See also:
'French aid worker kidnapped in Kabul, Afghan killed', AFP, 3 November 2008
'Gunmen kidnap Afghan government adviser in Pakistan', Reuters, 3 November 2008
'Afghan official abducted in north-west Pakistan', The Times of India, 3 November 2008
'UN relief chief urges immediate release of kidnapped aid worker', UN News Centre, 3 November 2008
'Afghan abductors free Bangladeshi aid workers', Reuters, 2 November 2008
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