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Taliban Kill 3 Female Aid Workers, Driver

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The Associated Press

Published: August 14, 2008

PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan - Taliban fighters with assault rifles shredded a U.S. aid group's SUV with dozens of bullets Wednesday, killing three Western women and their Afghan driver amid an escalating militant onslaught against humanitarian workers in Afghanistan.

The group whose workers were slain, the New York-based International Rescue Committee, announced it was suspending its Afghan humanitarian programs indefinitely.

The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying its fighters attacked two vehicles of "the foreign invader forces."

"They were not working for the interests of Afghanistan and they belonged to those countries whose forces ... took Afghanistan's freedom," a Taliban spokesman said.

The women killed in Logar province were identified as Nicole Dial, 30, a dual Trinidadian-American citizen; Jacqueline Kirk, 40, of Outrement, Quebec; and Shirley Case, 30, of Williams Lake, British Columbia. The 25-year-old driver, Mohammad Aimal, was from Kabul.

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