Aid groups suspend more Afghan work after attack

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL98646.htm

KABUL, June 7 (Reuters) - Five foreign aid groups have suspended operations in a northwestern Afghan province after attackers threw a grenade at the office of an Italian aid agency.

The attack on the office of Alisei in Qalaye Naw, capital of Badghis province, caused no casualties, but comes after five aid workers were killed in Badghis last week.

Sunday night's blast prompted the agency and four other foreign non-governmental organisations to suspend operations in Badghis, a foreign aid official said.

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has already suspended its its operations in Afghanistan after three of its European and two Afghan staff were killed in Badghis last Wednesday.

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[dusty64]

1. Afghanistan?

You mean there is still fighting going on there? I can not recall the last time I heard anything about that place, I imagine our corporate media plans to do the same to Iraq after June 30th. Simply stop reporting and the public will forget all about it.

[LittleApple81]

2. Bingo! And Bush had the gall to mention Afghanistan as a "success"

of his "war on terra." And they think that the government they installed in Afghanistan can be a model for Iraq. They even want to suggest the method used in Afghanistan to get Karsai in as something that could be done in Iraq. THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WITH DIFFERENT CULTURES, you repug morons.

[struggle4progress]

3. The administration apparently won't protect the NGOs.